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(6/7) So while I appreciate the congratulations on a result that I worked hard on for years, if you are congratulating me because you have a sexist vendetta against Katie, please go away and reconsider your priorities in life. Otherwise, stick around -- I hope to start tweeting
(7/7) more about black holes and other subjects I am passionate about -- including space, being a gay astronomer, Ursula K. Le Guin, architecture, and musicals. Thanks for following me, and let me know if you have any questions about the EHT! 
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(Also I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored)
Come for the science, stay for the Le Guin. 
Until yesterday, opening my thesis with a Le Guin quote was the highlight of my scientific career tbh 
May I ask which quote? I'm a big fan of Always Coming Home. I married the one guy I found who had the book+tape boxed set. (Bonus: Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.) It was accidental, sure, but it was still a sign. (You're tired of black hole questions, right?)
“She wept in pain, because she was free. What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one."
from the Tombs of Atuan....and I also have an extended discussion on light as the left hand of darkness as a metaphor for black hole images in the introduction. Possibly too much, but no one has stopped me :p
Any particular Le Guin books you‘d recommend after TLHoD and The Dispossessed? I loved those and don’t know where to begin with the rest of her intimidatingly large body of work
There was a recent collection of short stories, The Untrue & The Real - 2 subtitled volumes. The Wizard of Earthsea started as a trilogy (Tombs of Arian is #2) but she went back & added at least 1 more book later. There's no bad place to start. 
I second the recommendation of The Unreal and the Real (either volume), or The Birthday of the World if you like short stories!
I have a question: why is one side of the ring brighter?
Doppler beaming! Basically the material on the bottom side is rotating toward us at near light speeds, so it's emission is enhanced. The material at the top is rotating away from us, so it most of its power is beamed away from earth.
Great Explanation. That proves Andrew knows his area of research pretty well. Good on you.
I'd imagine he'd know it pretty well without having to prove it to anybody on like space stan twitter, considering he was part of a collaborative effort that made an enormous discovery.
Mining & Analysing Trillions of zeros and one requires Complex Algorithm otherwise one get lost quickly. It is common in Large Experiments where mining and analysis of large data is done by several teams independently. CERN is classical example.
This whole thread:pic.twitter.com/5fJOkxI246
Well that tweet probably put all the sexist detractors in cognitive dissonance, wondering whether they should be more sexists than homophobic or more homophobic than sexist. All of you keep up with the good work & the well deserved pride & credit !
Omg this pic is so cute. Just like you two casually admiring your work. Like just found a black hole no biggie. Proud of both of you! So excited to see what comes next!!
The really cool thing was that my 14 and 9yo sons didn’t think anything of a woman being recognised for the work. My husband thinks this is because for them, a woman doing great things is completely normal. #nextgeneration
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