A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic black hole data sets. Based on the network and data from the Event Horizon Telescope, they now predict, among other things, that the black hole at the center of our Milky Way is spinning at near top speed.
  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    22 days ago

    Thanks to the neural network, the researchers now suspect, for example, that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning almost at top speed. Its rotation axis points to Earth.

    Why wouldn’t the rotation axis be perpendicular to the galactic plane? Pointing right at Earth seems a bit suspicious.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    71·
    22 days ago

    “We fed synthetic data to a program and it gave us truths of the universe”

    mmm. okay.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    6·
    22 days ago

    “Why not make the black hole spin faster at top speed?”

    “…But this blackhole spins at 11”