Tuesday, April 22, 2025

The new AI-based tools can make fundamental advances in astronomy.


"A new AI called Urania is transforming gravitational wave detection by designing superior, sometimes bizarre detectors that challenge current scientific understanding. The best designs are now shared for global research. Credit: SciTechDaily.com" (ScitechDaily, When Machines Dream: AI Designs Strange New Tools to Listen to the Cosmos)

"Einstein imagined gravitational waves over a hundred years ago, but it wasn’t until 2016 that technology finally caught up. Now, researchers are pushing the boundaries again – this time with the help of an AI named Urania." (ScitechDaily, When Machines Dream: AI Designs Strange New Tools to Listen to the Cosmos)

Developed by Dr. Mario Krenn and his team, Urania has designed a series of novel gravitational wave detectors that not only match but often exceed the capabilities of existing human-made concepts. What’s most fascinating is that the AI didn’t just replicate known strategies – it invented brand new ones, some of which scientists don’t yet fully understand. These discoveries are now publicly available in a “Detector Zoo,” hinting at a bold new era where machines innovate and humans interpret." (ScitechDaily, When Machines Dream: AI Designs Strange New Tools to Listen to the Cosmos)


Gravitational waves are a fundamental tool. Suppose researchers want to observe and research things like neutron stars and black holes. The problem is that the black hole's eruption gives information to another wavelength than just gravitational waves. 

Things like gravitational waves can be a new threat to data security in quantum computing. Gravitational waves can shake superpositioned and entangled photons and disturb data transmission in the quantum computer and quantum network. Another phenomenon that can be  

The AI-based systems can make sensor fusion to connect all data from different sensors from radio- and optical telescopes to the gravitational wave detectors. That system fusion allows to creation of new models of how to predict the gravitational waves and things that are connected with it. 

The gravitational waves form in high-energy reactions like neutron stars and black hole collisions. Things like gamma-ray bursts (GRB) X-ray bursts (XRB) and fast radio bursts (FRB) are also connected with the high energy reactions. 

The interesting thing is this: the object sends those bursts when it releases energy. So lonely black hole sends gravity waves when energy injection in the black hole ends. The energy bursts follow each other in the series where the highest energy radiation comes first. Then the energy level in those bursts decreases. 

So, the AI can predict which of those bursts and the gravity waves are connected with each other. In the most exciting vision, the FRB happens just after the gravity wave bursts. And if we someday can predict that energy impulse and its route that allows us to make the system that captures that energy. The FRB can also damage the quantum computers or disturb their operations. So predicting that is very important if we someday make spaceborne quantum computers. 

If researchers can predict the FRB and its route, maybe someday in the future we can use at least the FRB as an energy source. 

The FRB must be trapped by the radio antenna. And then that energy must conduct to the battery. Basically, we have technology that can trap the FRB. But prediction of those radio bursts is not very easy to make. If the system traps about 20% of the radio burst that can solve part of Earth's energy problems. Capturing that thing can happen by using a satellite group that is positioned in the FRB route.  But those are the futuristic visions. 


 https://scitechdaily.com/when-machines-dream-ai-designs-strange-new-tools-to-listen-to-the-cosmos/

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