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After earning her doctorate, Bouman joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow on the Event Horizon Telescope Imaging team.[18][19][20]

A blurry photo of a supermassive black hole in M87.

The first direct image of a black hole, imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope and published in April 2019

Bouman joined Event Horizon Telescope project in 2013.[21] She led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes, known as Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP).[17][22][23] CHIRP inspired image validation procedures used in acquiring the first image of a black hole in April 2019,[24] and Bouman played a significant role in the project[2][25] by verifying images, selecting parameters for filtering images taken by the Event Horizon Telescope,[26] and participating in the development of a robust imaging framework that compared the results of different image reconstruction techniques.[27] Her group is analyzing the Event Horizon Telescope's images to learn more about general relativity in a strong gravitational field.[28]

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