Scientists from the Dutch Black Hole Association are carrying out a mission to search for new black holes. This is a difficult task because the light from black holes always fades very quickly, so they grate those who love astronomy for pondering every potential photo from the universe by using an application called Black Hole Finder.
The images are collected by the BlackGEM satellite lens in Chile, when detecting attractive waves, they will immediately start scanning the sky to find the light climbing from kilonova - the rays of light that appear when two neutron stars merge to form a black hole. This light usually lasts up to a week, so the search and determination speed should be as fast as possible.
According to Black Hole Finder's instructions, some things can cause fake results, such as communication satellites, cosmic rays affecting the detector, reflection or data processing.
The society used to use AI to solve problems, but the human eye determines the models much better than our algorithms - Steven Bloemen, director of the lunar project, shared.
He added that users of the app are also helping train AI algorithms to better distinguish between real and fake images and speed up the search for black holes.
Black Hole Finder, developed by Pocket Science, is available for both iOS and Android as well as on the web. Users are provided with three detailed photos - a new photo, an older reference image of the same location in the night sky, and a combined photo to show the difference between the two photos. Users are then asked to decide whether it is real or fake, if they are not sure, they can choose undetected.
Users of the app have the opportunity to control the kinh by asking to track temporary sources under 4pm.
Accordingly, after meeting the conditions of determining more than 1,000 temporary visits, the application will give that user a "super user" status so that they can request tracking. The application's introduction also said that participating in the search means that users have the opportunity to contribute and register for scientific publications as co-authors.
