Artificial intelligence has improved the first ever real photo of a supermassive black hole, which is 6.5 billion times heavier than the Sun

In 2017, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) obtained the first real photograph in human history.

black hole. After 6 years, artificial intelligence was able to improve the picture.

What is known

American scientists decided to improve photographyblack hole. The original image shows what looks like a "fuzzy donut". The experts applied the PRIMO algorithm based on machine learning to improve the image.


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According to scientists, artificial intelligencetrained on 30,000 images of black holes. You can see what came of it above. On the left is the original photo, and on the right is the photo improved using artificial intelligence.


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Supermassive black hole, captured onphotographs using the EHT (Event Horizon Telescope) telescope, is located in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy in the constellation Virgo. It has a mass of 6.5 billion solar masses and is located 55 million light-years from Earth.