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First-Ever Black Hole Image Sharpened Using Machine Learning

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First-Ever Black Hole Image Sharpened Using Machine Learning

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Space.com

22 Views • Jan 17, 2025

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The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has been sharped using a machine learning technique called PRIMO.

PRIMO is short for principal-component interferometric modeling.

Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: L. Medeiros (Institute for Advanced Study), D. Psaltis (Georgia Tech), T. Lauer (NSF’s NOIRLab), and F. Ozel (Georgia Tech) | edited by Steve Spaleta