First image of blackhole moon meme code#
He wrote 850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black hole image algorithm" to /r/pics, which was subsequently deleted for having an "inappropriate title." The following day, Redditor SmellyTheBluCow submitted a post titled "Katie Bouman should not be getting credit for the picture if the black hole" to /r/unpopularopinion, citing the project's GitHub page showing that programmers Andrew Chael and Michael Johnson contributed a majority of commits. Meanwhile, a post titled "This is Andrew Chael. That day, Redditor GrumpyWendigo posted the photo to /r/photoshopbattles, where numerous edited examples were submitted in the comments. Within 48 hours, the post gathered upwards of 195,800 points (86% upvoted) and 6,200 comments on /r/pics. Katie Bouman, identifying her as "the computer scientist behind the first ever image of a black-hole" (shown below). On April 10th, 2019, Redditor iKojan tweeted a photograph of Dr. For example, a post made by Redditor Dragonjazz, referncing Surprised Pikachu meme, gained over 33,600 upvotes in four hours. In the hours following the public release of the image, it gained significant popularity online as an exploitable. Multiple major news outlets reported on the story, including news articles by ABC News, Telegraph,, CNN and BBC.
On the same day, National Science Foundation tweeted the image, with the post accumulating over 29,700 retweets and 53,400 likes within 12 hours. In the released photograph, a supermassive black hole and its shadow can be seen. The photograph of black hole at the center of Messier 87 galaxy was made using the Event Horizon Telescope, an array of eight ground-based radio telescopes designed to capture the image. On April 10th, 2019, National Science Foundation issued a press release revealing the first ever photograph of a black hole.
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