Caught Simon’s reaction to Wednesday’s breaking news on video: the first-ever image of a black hole published, made by the Event Horizon Telescope project team. Simon explains why, if you stood next to the black hole, you would be able to see the back of your own head.
Simon loved this video by Veritasium about how the image of the black hole was made (he had watched this one day prior to the actual publication of the black hole image).
Yesterday, wee also watched this beautiful TEDx contribution by Katie Bouman (one of the leading figures behind the algorithm that helped stitch the M87 black hole image data together). The video is from three years ago, when the project was just getting started. Katie is such an inspiration: a computer scientist helping astrophysicists!
Scientists report ‘groundbreaking’ black hole findings from the Event Horizon Telescope: link to the actual press conference.
Geeks out of the box 