Katherine (Katie) Louise Bouman is a young scientist. She did what was called to do the impossible and she made history. Everyone has seen the black hole as close as possible thanks to her work. She led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes, known as Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP). She was a member of the Event Horizon Telescope team that captured the first image of a black hole. On April 10, 2019, the team took eight different telescopes from all around the world that were built for other purposes, and they joined them together to act as one dish.

The California Institute of Technology, which hired Bouman as an assistant professor in June 2019, awarded her a named professorship in 2020.