29-Year-Old Katie Bouman Responsible for First Black Hole Image Bouman, a computer scientist, led the <br />development of the algorithm that captured <br />the first-ever image of a black hole. She began working on the <br />algorithm three years ago as <br />a graduate student at MIT. The photo, depicting the object from <br />500 million trillion km away, was <br />released on Wednesday. "Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed." Katie Bouman, to <br />'BBC Radio 5 live' Bouman insists that she doesn't deserve <br />all of the credit, as a team of more than <br />200 scientists assisted with the project. Katie Bouman, to CNN
