Comparison of EHT and EHT Reconstructed with PRIMO
A team of researchers, including an astronomer with NSF’s NOIRLab, has developed a new machine-learning technique to enhance the fidelity and sharpness of radio interferometry images. To demonstrate the power of their new approach, which is called PRIMO, the team created a new, high-fidelity version of the iconic Event Horizon Telescope's image of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, a giant elliptical galaxy located 55 million light-years from Earth. The image of the M87 supermassive black hole originally published by the EHT collaboration in 2019 (left); and a new image generated by the PRIMO algorithm using the same data set (right).
Credit:L. Medeiros (Institute for Advanced Study), D. Psaltis (Georgia Tech), T. Lauer (NSF’s NOIRLab), and F. Ozel (Georgia Tech)
About the Image
Id: | noirlab2310a |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | April 13, 2023, 4 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2310 |
Size: | 47148 x 24102 px |
About the Object
Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |