June 19, 2019

Dayton Daily News: This local engineer helped capture the historic black hole image

June 19, 2019

Engineer Ben Bosma, tinkering in his Col Glenn Highway office at MTSI Inc.

The Dayton Daily News posted a Fascinating story on MTSI employee Ben Bosma’s contributions to NASA’s recent historic photo of a black hole.

“A Dayton engineer quietly played a pivotal role in NASA’s recent historic photo of a black hole.

The image captured the world’s attention in April, with NASA explaining that a global network of telescopes — dubbed the “Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration” — helped capture and stitch together the image.Ben Bosma, a retired Air Force fighter pilot and senior development engineer for Beavercreek defense contractor MTSI Inc., helped make that first-ever image possible.”

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