Astronomers Deploy AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe

Astronomer Kevin Schawinski has spent much of his career studying how massive black holes shape galaxies. But he isn't into dirty work--dealing with messy data--so he decided to figure out how neural networks could do it for him. Problem is, he and his cosmic colleagues suck at that sophisticated kind of coding. That changed when another professor at Schawinski's institution, ETH Zurich, sent him an email and CCed Ce Zhang, who actually is a computer scientist. "You guys should talk," the email said.