Surfing Gravity's Waves: HPC+AI Hang a Cosmic Ten

Eliu Huerta is harnessing AI and high performance computing (HPC) to observe the cosmos more clearly. For several years, the astrophysics researcher has been chipping away at a grand challenge, using data to detect signals produced by collisions of black holes and neutron stars. If his next big design for a neural network is successful, astrophysicists will use it to find more black holes and study them in more detail than ever. Such insights could help answer fundamental questions about the universe. They may even add a few new pages to the physics textbook.