A multimillion-pound research project will see some of the world\u2019s leading experts use artificial intelligence to create the first-ever 3D movies of black holes.<\/p>\n
Kazunori Akiyama is joining Heriot-Watt University for the TomoGrav project, which is being funded through a \u00a34 million fellowship.<\/p>\n
He was previously involved in creating the first images of black holes, stellar bodies which are so dense nothing \u2013 including light \u2013 can escape.<\/p>\n
The team will create 3D movies showing how plasma flows around black holes, demonstrating how time and space is bent by their extreme gravity.<\/p>\n
It is hoped the AI techniques being developed will also speed up MRI scans for heart and liver patients and improve climate monitoring systems.<\/p>\n
Dr Akiyama, who is joining Heriot-Watt from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: \u201cThe first images of black holes were extraordinary steps forward, but they were only fragments of what these astronomical objects are doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur collaboration brings together two expert communities, black hole astronomy and artificial intelligence, and it is at this interface that pathbreaking progress can now be made.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy combining world-leading telescope capabilities with Heriot-Watt\u2019s strengths in computational imaging, we will be able to follow the dynamics around black holes in a way that has never been possible before.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of a single blurred frame, we will see how plasma moves, how magnetic fields evolve, and how gravity shapes everything around the event horizon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat shift, from still images to time-resolved structure, will fundamentally change the scientific questions we can ask and change our understanding of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr Akiyama will be joined by Professor Yves Wiaux, who is an expert in using artificial intelligence to create images using incomplete data.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cDr Akiyama and colleagues bring world-leading expertise in the telescopes and observations that will bring exquisite black hole data, while our methods in AI and computational imaging provide the tools needed to interpret that data.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur collaboration built on complementary strengths positions both Heriot-Watt and the UK to contribute meaningfully to a field that is now taking shape worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n
Funding for the TomoGrav project comes from the Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route from the Royal Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A multimillion-pound research project will see some of the world\u2019s leading experts use artificial intelligence to create the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[343,8591,109968,109967,85,46,109966,15429,3666,141],"class_list":["post-192280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-black-holes","tag-dr-akiyama","tag-heriot-watt-university","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kazunori-akiyama","tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","tag-research-project","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}