A black hole ripped apart a supernova (www.popsci.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to astronomy@mander.xyz on 24 Aug 2025 00:16
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2025 02:51 collapse

The saga started two years ago at Caltech’s Zwicky Transient Facility located at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. There, astronomers from Harvard University, the Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics, and MIT tasked a newly designed machine learning algorithm to scan the night skies for odd explosions in real time. Operators hoped that quickly flagging possible targets in this way could offer vital extra time for ground and space telescope array observations around the world. In July 2023, the AI system sighted one such event, which astronomers classified SN 2023zkd.

Comparative scanning of the night skies is a good use for AI.

stephen01king@piefed.zip on 24 Aug 2025 06:55 next collapse

Yep, finally some proper use of AI instead of shoving them down our throats.

NightFantom@slrpnk.net on 24 Aug 2025 06:56 collapse

There’s lots of good uses for AI, but people seem to equate AI with LLMs these days so I feel the need to point out that this is not a good use case for LLMs