Artificial intelligence has improved the image quality of a black hole

A supermassive black hole that is 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass equal to six and a half billion suns.

Artificial intelligence has helped scientists improve the picture of a black hole in the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy. Space reported it.

An image of the black hole M87*, located 55 million light-years from Earth, was taken by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2019. The data to create the image was collected over several days in 2017.

If in the first picture of a black hole you see a “flaming doughnut”, then after processing you will see a thin “golden ring”. So, thanks to the new AI technology – PRIMO, rethinking this image will help scientists better understand its properties, as well as extending this knowledge to a black hole located in the center of our galaxy – the Milky Way.

PRIMO was trained on 30,000 high-quality images of gas-eating space titans, according to Princeton University.

The image obtained after processing is consistent with EHT data and theoretical models of black holes.

These models explain that the bright ring seen in these images of M87* is the result of gas being accelerated to near light speed by the incredible gravitational influence of the black hole. This causes the gas to heat up and glow as it moves around the light-encapsulating surface that forms the black hole’s outer boundary, called the event horizon.

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It was previously reported that astronomers from the UK have discovered a supermassive black hole, whose mass is about 33 billion times the mass of the Sun.

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