This reminds me of the 'graduate student algorithm' (Put the graduate student in a room, and don't let them out until they get the result the professor expects)

This reminds me of the 'graduate student algorithm' (Put the graduate student in a room, and don't let them out until they get the result the professor expects). In this case, the scientists expect a sharp ring, so they tweaked things until they got a nice sharp photon ring...