Researchers use AI to analyse cosmic explosions.

As mentioned in the past, and as can be seen from the remarkable results recently achieved in the medical and scientific fields, artificial intelligence has proven time and time again to be a fundamentally crucial tool for research within particularly complex fields. It seems, therefore, to be astronomy's turn.

A team of researchers at the University of Warwick, England, has implemented the use of machine learning within its process of studying cosmic phenomena. The aim of the project is to help astronomers understand more precisely how and why supernovae occur.

It takes about an hour and a half to create a single model of such a cosmic event - through the use of artificial intelligence, however, thousands of supernova models can be generated in less than a second, resulting in more and more examples that can be analysed.