{"id":216029,"date":"2025-06-16T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-uncovers-wild-spin-of-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:09:07","slug":"ai-uncovers-wild-spin-of-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-uncovers-wild-spin-of-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"AI Uncovers Wild Spin of the Milky Way\u2019s Supermassive Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-uncovers-wild-spin-of-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (<a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/event-horizon-telescope\/\">EHT<\/a>) team revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/first-image-of-a-black-hole-captured-by-astronomers\/\">first-ever image of a supermassive black hole<\/a> in the galaxy M87. In 2022, they followed up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/stunning-reveal-first-image-of-the-black-hole-at-the-center-of-our-milky-way-galaxy\/\">iconic image<\/a> of Sagittarius A at the heart of the Milky Way. While these images were groundbreaking, the data behind them held even deeper insights that were hard to decode.<\/p>\n<p><b>Neural Networks Meet Black Hole Physics<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Previous studies by the EHT Collaboration used only a handful of realistic synthetic data files. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (<a href=\"https:\/\/path-cc.io\/\">PATh<\/a>) project, the Madison-based <a href=\"https:\/\/chtc.cs.wisc.edu\/\">CHTC<\/a> enabled the astronomers to feed millions of such data files into a so-called Bayesian neural network, which can quantify uncertainties. This allowed the researchers to make a much better comparison between the EHT data and the models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team revealed the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. In 2022, they followed up with the iconic image of Sagittarius A at the heart of the Milky Way. While these images were groundbreaking, the data behind them held even deeper insights that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}