The Royal Astronomical Society publishes pioneer study simulating the behavior of a black hole by the Brazilian astrophysicist Roberta Duarte

In “Black Hole Weather Forecasting with Deep Learning: A Pilot Study”, written by Ms Duarte, Rodrigo Nemmen and João Paulo Navarro, the authors explain: “(…) we have trained a machine to forecast such a spatiotemporally chaotic system - i.e. black hole weather forecasting (…)”

 

“We find that deep neural networks seem to learn well black hole accretion physics and evolve the accretion flow orders of magnitude faster than traditional numerical solvers, while maintaining a reasonable accuracy for a long time. (…) Our approach thus seems to generalize well”