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Population density in Europe.

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Mark Rothko, Untitiled (Blue, green and brown), 1951

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Katie Bouman who led the development of the algorithm which made it possible to capture the image of a black hole, and the moment when the first black hole image was processed.

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In the last days, the sentence above was repeated a lot on the net and medias, but it’s not totally exact. There was some imprecision about the role of Katie Bouman.

“In their eagerness to celebrate her, however, many nonscientists on social media overstated her role in what was a group effort by hundreds of people, creating an exaggerated impression as the photo was shared and reshared.”

“Dr. Bouman, who will soon become an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology, indeed played a significant role in the imaging process, which involved researchers breaking up into teams to map the data and compare and test the images they created. While she led the development of an algorithm to take a picture of a black hole, an effort that was the subject of a TED Talk she gave in 2016, her colleagues said that technique was not ultimately used to create this particular image.”

How Katie Bouman became accidentally the face of the black hole project, New York Times, April 11 2019

Katie Bouman herself quickly posted this on facebook (April 10):

I’m so excited that we finally get to share what we have been working on for the past year! The image shown today is the combination of images produced by multiple methods. No one algorithm or person made this image, it required the amazing talent of a team of scientists from around the globe and years of hard work to develop the instrument, data processing, imaging methods, and analysis techniques that were necessary to pull off this seemingly impossible feat. It has been truly an honor, and I am so lucky to have had the opportunity to work with you all.

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“The Secret of the Great (Louvre) Pyramid” by JR (Paris)

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JR created a 17,000-square-metre optical illusion around the building using 2,000 strips of paper. JR asked volunteers to come and join in on the installation titled ‘the secret of the great pyramid,‘ – his largest collage to date – between march 26th and friday 29th, ready to commemorate the anniversary of opening of the louvre pyramid the next day. Although the museum itself dates back to the 12th century, the louvre pyramid, designed by chinese-born U.S. architect I.M. Pei, was officially opened on march 30, 1989.