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AI improves black hole images

The image on the left is the one presented in 2019 based on data recorded by the Event Horizon Telescope array. On the right, we see a processing based on the same original data by an artificial intelligence algorithm called PRIMO, trained on a series of realistic simulations of black holes with accretion disks.

PRIMO is a new application of artificial intelligence (AI) in astronomy that enhances the resolution of black hole images

A black hole has a tail of stars

A team of researchers discovered through an image from the Hubble telescope a black hole expelled from a galaxy with a tail of stars

First black hole in the Universe

Discovered thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, the first black hole in the Universe formed just 570 million years after the Big Bang

A rapidly growing black hole

This Arp 299 system consists of a pair of galaxies, IC 694 and NGC 3690, which underwent a close encounter about 700 million years ago. As a result of this interaction, the system underwent a fierce burst of star formation. In the past fifteen years or so, six supernovae have exploded in the outermost regions of the galaxy, making this system a prominent supernova factory. Credit: NASA

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly growing black hole in one of the most well-known galaxies in the primordial universe

Black holes are the source of dark energy

An international team has discovered the first evidence that black holes are the primary source of the dark energy of the Universe.

Event Horizon targets the Centaurus A radiogalaxy

Centaurus A, the nearest active galaxy to Earth. Credit: SSRO-South (Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Daniel Verschatse, Rick Gilbert) and Kevin Ivarsen (PROMPT / CTIO / UNC).

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) aims at the heart of Centaurus A radio galaxy, providing a detailed image of its black hole jets.