{"id":240363,"date":"2025-12-19T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240363\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:54:12","slug":"black-holes-to-be-shown-in-action-in-first-3d-movies-created-using-ai-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/240363\/","title":{"rendered":"Black holes to be shown in action in first 3D movies created using AI \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kazunori Akiyama is joining Heriot-Watt University for the TomoGrav project, which is being funded through a \u00a34 million fellowship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/uk\/strike-ballot-called-off-after-wightlink-ferry-dispute-resolved-ZOVHKY6PMFJDVLYFQDEUOEQTDM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Strike ballot called off after Wightlink ferry dispute resolved\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LQ54RBHLJVP2LEFJHMCDJZFQHE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/uk\/jamie-lee-curtis-among-stars-paying-tribute-to-rob-and-michele-reiner-GBACRG2PCVMB7GNN26I7OYO3NU\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jamie Lee Curtis among stars paying tribute to Rob and Michele Reiner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/XS2DOSMVRRI3TE5GJWTMP6365I.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 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