The first-ever photo of a black hole just got clearer thanks to AI.
“With our new machine-learning technique, PRIMO, we were able to achieve the maximum resolution of the current array,” says lead author Lia Medeiros. “Since we cannot study black holes up close, the detail in an image plays a critical role in our ability to understand its behavior. The width of the ring in the image is now smaller by about a factor of two, which will be a powerful constraint for our theoretical models and tests of gravity.
Considering that the new photo is technically the result of many AI-generated simulations, it’s natural to wonder how realistic it is. Using the original image, scientists determined that the Messier 87 black hole is 40 billion kilometers across, which is nearly 29,000 Suns. The black hole, which is about 500 million trillion kilometers away, is believed to have a mass about 6.5 billion times that of the Sun.
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