First Black Hole Photo Recreated with Artificial Intelligence

In April 2019, a huge success was achieved in the space exploration of humanity. The Event Horizon Telescope had succeeded in viewing a black hole for the first time in history. The photo of the black hole in our light for 53 million years has now passed through the hands of artificial intelligence.

Scientists, including the names of the team that imaged the Messier 87 black hole, reprocessed the resulting image through the artificial intelligence PRIMO. Of course, in this processing process, not only reference images were provided, but also 30,000 high-resolution simulated images created for the black hole. The result was this:

New version of the first black hole photo:

What does this image tell us?

Lia Medeiros, who is in the team behind the research, explained that they were able to obtain the clearest resolution of the black hole with the new PRIMO technique. In addition, it was stated that since we cannot observe black holes closely, high-resolution imagery will be of great importance to learn the behavior of these structures.

It was also stated that the newly created image is in line with the original data and theoretical expectations about the black hole. The research has been published in The Astrophysical Journal.