Artificial intelligence has improved the first-ever real photo of a supermassive black hole 6.5 billion times heavier than the Sun
In 2017, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) obtained the first ever real photo of a black hole. Six years later, artificial intelligence was able to improve the image.
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American scientists have decided to improve the photo of a black hole. The original image shows something resembling a "fuzzy donut". Experts have applied the PRIMO algorithm, based on machine learning, to improve the image.
According to the scientists, the artificial intelligence was trained on 30,000 images of black holes. You can see what it did above. On the left there is the original image and on the right you can see a photo improved by artificial intelligence.
The supermassive black hole pictured by the EHT (Event Horizon Telescope) is located at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 in the constellation Virgo. The star, which has a mass of 6.5 billion solar masses, is 55 million light-years from Earth.