What Does A Black Hole Actually Look Like? | Institute Instances – Lia Medeiros
Lia Medeiros, Visitor in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural Sciences (2023–24), describes how she created a machine learning algorithm to produce new images of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, and how such images can be used to test Albert Einstein's theory of gravity.
Read more about Medeiros's work on "Black Holes as Laboratories": https://www.ias.edu/ideas/black-holes...
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