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The image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 was boosted to high fidelity by a machine learning program trained on black hole models.

A distant supermassive black hole is looking sharp after a makeover from a supercomputer. 

The “fuzzy orange donut” seen in the first image of a black hole ever taken has slimmed down to a thinner “skinny golden ring” with the aid of machine learning.

The redefinition of this image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) could help better understand its characteristics and could be extended to the black hole at the heart of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

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