A new AI model (right) has helped refine details in the first-ever photographs of black holes (left) taken by the Event Horizon Telescope. But can the new models be trusted? (Image credit: EHT Collaboration/Janssen et al.)
The massive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning at nearly “maximum speed,” according to a new artificial intelligence (AI) model.
The model, trained in part on complex telescope data previously thought too noisy to use, aims to produce the most detailed images of the black hole. However, given the questionable quality of the data, not all experts are confident in the accuracy of the AI model.
“I’m very sympathetic and interested in what they’re doing,” Reinhard Genzel, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, told Live Science. “But AI is not a panacea.”
For decades, scientists have been trying to observe and characterize Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. In May 2022, they released the first-ever image of the colossal object, but many questions remained, including about its behavior.
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