There may not yet be telescopes capable of unlocking all the secrets of supermassive black holes, but AI is now on the case. Recently, an international team of astronomers successfully trained a neural network with millions of black hole simulations to allow it to interpret fuzzy data captured from these enigmatic space objects in real life.
Of the various methods for investigating a black hole, the Event Horizon Telescope is the most famous. The EHT isn’t a single instrument but rather a number of radio telescopes around the world that work together like a single telescope. Thanks to the EHT, it’s been possible to obtain images of the supermassive black