The iconic and first ever image of a black hole was recently released. It took over a decade of work and is a major achievement for astronomy and broadens our understanding of the universe for all of us. Would it surprise you to know that Python played a major part in this discovery? Of course it did, and Dr. Sara Issaoun is here to give us the full story.
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Sara's PyCon keynote: • Keynote - Sara Issaoun
Sara on Twitter: / saraissaoun
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Event Horizon Telescope: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/about
Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinated Observations: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ch...
Event Horizon Data: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/for...
Imaging, analysis, and simulation software for radio interferometry Package: https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/
Initial data showing ring (matplotlib) (video at time): • Keynote - Sara Issaoun
Mars 2020 Helicopter GitHub Badge: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-04...
Listen this episode on Talk Python:https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/3...
Episode transcripts:https://talkpython.fm/episodes/transc...
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