AI Discovers Secret Equation for "Weighing" Colossal Clusters of Galaxies

This image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a spiral galaxy (bottom left) in front of a large galaxy cluster. New research leveraged an artificial tool to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters more accurately. Astronomers at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Flatiron Institute, along with their collaborators, have utilized artificial intelligence to improve the method of calculating the mass of massive clusters of galaxies. The AI revealed that by incorporating a simple term into an existing equation, researchers can now achieve much more accurate mass estimates than before. The newly enhanced calculations will allow scientists to determine the basic characteristics of the universe with greater precision, according to a report by the astrophysicists, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.