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How to Photograph a Supermassive Black Hole - Penguicon 2019

Photographing a Supermassive Black Hole

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The bulk of the presentation was extrapolated from Katie Bouman's 1 hour presentation at Caltech titled, Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGL_OL3OrCE

This is an article from 2016 when MIT announced CHIRP.

http://news.mit.edu/2016/method-image-black-holes-0606

Press release published by Extreme Tech on the EHT.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/229675-mit-researcher-develops-new-algorithm-for-imaging-black-holes

TED Talk on the ongoing black hole project by Katie Bouman in 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYs

Katie Bouman's paper, Computational Imaging for VLBI Image Reconstruction

http://people.csail.mit.edu/klbouman/pw/papers_and_presentations/cvpr2016_bouman.pdf

Andrew Chael's imaging library on Github.

https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging

A paper describing Andrew Chael's work titled, High Resolution Linear Polarimetric Imaging for the Event Horizon Telescope.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06156

The Event Horizon Telescope home page.

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/

Physics Today - What it took to capture a black hole

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20190411a/full/

Phys * Org - Scientist superstar Katie Bouman designed algorithm for black hole image

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-scientist-superstar-katie-bouman-algorithm.html

The Asahi Shumbun - Japan's role in black hole image

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201904110037.html

NAOJ - Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole

https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2019/20190410-eht.html

If these sources all seem famliliar and you are having deja vu, that is because I aggregated most of this from a post by Misty S. Boyer, a data analyst who geeked out about this on her wall. She was ultimately the inspiration for this presentation, and I'm very grateful for her.

https://www.facebook.com/paganmist/posts/10156249525816313

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