[blub]

I've read the following in a newspaper article:

"[...]30 of the 200 scientists were responsible for the image processing. There were four algorithms developed in parallel to transform the telescope data into pictures, one of them developed by Bouman during her Phd at MIT[...]"

The gist was that she's a great researcher, but not a hero or the face of the project, as she was presented.

Frankly, it looks like the media screwed up in their attempt to transform her into the face of women in science and turned her into a target of harassment. I've seen e.g. an article from a major publication titled "Without this woman, there would be no picture of the black hole". She seems to be a very competent researcher and had an important contribution. Saying that would have been accurate, fairer and would have prevented the malicious gossip, I assume.

[Mirioron]

I mostly feel bad for her. She didn't try to claim that fame, others did it for her and she's the one to suffer the backlash.

I saw an article with the same title on futurism [0] and didn't really question it at first. Perhaps there were others who saw similar things, but as they learned more about the story they felt like they had been lied to.

[0] https://futurism.com/the-byte/first-black-hole-image-katie-b...