![]() The images are so compelling that they prompted Dennis Overbye of the New York Timesto refer to it as “a reminder yet again of the power and malevolence of nature” and “a smoke ring framing a one-way portal to eternity,” a quote so staggeringly horny that it caused the Trudeau-Porowski Scale to temporarily malfunction. Revealed at a press conference in Washington, D.C., the image is the result of nearly two years of analysis from a network of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope, which were placed at mountaintop observatories in multiple continents around the world. Yet a 6.6 is nothing compared to what followed when scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics released the first-ever close-up photo of a black hole, a cosmic abyss 55 million light-years away. The images prompted an avalanche of horny tweets from users professing their love for the actor scientists estimated that the Hot Pope photos registered a relatively high 6.6 on the Trudeau/Porowski Scale, the official system for gauging online horniness. They picked the wrong astrophysicist.On Tuesday, photos of a remarkably fit, tanned Jude Law in a tight white Speedo filming The New Pope hit Twitter. That same day, The Washington Post published an article about the online controversy surrounding Bouman's work titled " Trolls hijacked a scientist’s image to attack Katie Bouman. On April 12th, Redditor DankMemesKing777 posted an edited version of the photo with Minecraft on her computer screen to /r/ dankmemes, where it gained over 54,200 points (93% upvoted) and 560 comments. ![]() (1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library ( ) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. That day, Chael posted a thread on Twitter condemning "sexist attacks" on Bouman (shown below). He wrote 850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black hole image algorithm" to /r/pics, which was subsequently deleted for having an "inappropriate title." The following day, Redditor SmellyTheBluCow submitted a post titled "Katie Bouman should not be getting credit for the picture if the black hole" to /r/unpopularopinion, citing the project's GitHub page showing that programmers Andrew Chael and Michael Johnson contributed a majority of commits. Meanwhile, a post titled "This is Andrew Chael. That day, Redditor GrumpyWendigo posted the photo to /r/photoshopbattles, where numerous edited examples were submitted in the comments. Within 48 hours, the post gathered upwards of 195,800 points (86% upvoted) and 6,200 comments on /r/pics. Katie Bouman, identifying her as "the computer scientist behind the first ever image of a black-hole" (shown below). On April 10th, 2019, Redditor iKojan tweeted a photograph of Dr. For example, a post made by Redditor Dragonjazz, referncing Surprised Pikachu meme, gained over 33,600 upvotes in four hours. In the hours following the public release of the image, it gained significant popularity online as an exploitable. Multiple major news outlets reported on the story, including news articles by ABC News, Telegraph,, CNN and BBC. On the same day, National Science Foundation tweeted the image, with the post accumulating over 29,700 retweets and 53,400 likes within 12 hours. In the released photograph, a supermassive black hole and its shadow can be seen. The photograph of black hole at the center of Messier 87 galaxy was made using the Event Horizon Telescope, an array of eight ground-based radio telescopes designed to capture the image. On April 10th, 2019, National Science Foundation issued a press release revealing the first ever photograph of a black hole.
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