By MRA-UK: If you are not actually living in a black hole yourself, and hence out of contact with the rest of the universe, you will know by now that astronomers have just reported the first picture of a black hole, specifically the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87. (To be pedantic, it’s the first picture of stuff falling into a black hole, the black hole itself being, well, black. Actually, it isn’t, quite, but never mind).
One is used to experts interviewed on the BBC about anything scientific (well, anything at all really) being women on every occasion it proves possible. This was no exception, local women astronomers being pressed into service yesterday to comment on the achievement. Annoyingly obvious propaganda. One groans and moves on. But press articles have appeared such as the BBC’s “Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image” and the Mail’s ‘An amazing accomplishment… take your seat in history’: Ivanka Trump and AOC lead the plaudits for humble MIT graduate, 29, who created the algorithm that captured the first EVER direct image of a black hole’.
A whole bunch a female celebs (not noted for knowing anything about science, and caring less) flooded social media to “claim the black hole for woman-kind”.
One is used to experts interviewed on the BBC about anything scientific (well, anything at all really) being women on every occasion it proves possible. This was no exception, local women astronomers being pressed into service yesterday to comment on the achievement. Annoyingly obvious propaganda. One groans and moves on. But press articles have appeared such as the BBC’s “Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image” and the Mail’s ‘An amazing accomplishment… take your seat in history’: Ivanka Trump and AOC lead the plaudits for humble MIT graduate, 29, who created the algorithm that captured the first EVER direct image of a black hole’.
A whole bunch a female celebs (not noted for knowing anything about science, and caring less) flooded social media to “claim the black hole for woman-kind”.