It's very easy to see that this is a publicity stunt (and a quite sexist one, at that). Allegations have been made that Andrew Chael contributed 850kloc, but th

It's very easy to see that this is a publicity stunt (and a quite sexist one, at that). Allegations have been made that Andrew Chael contributed 850kloc, but this is clearly bizzare. Analyzing the git repo[1] shows that this enormous contribution was actually data used to train the probabilistic imaging model used in creating the image. Chael has also addressed this attack campaign on his twitter [2], making it clear that Katie Bouman played a vital role in the EHT project. [1] https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging/graphs/contributors [2] https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/1116518544961830918?s=21 https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/111651854496183091...