'Supernova sleuths' have found a 'scary' supermassive black hole - with the help of artificial intelligence.
While the"outlier" death event lay undetected for years among other telescopic data, a Purdue lab's engine — the Recommender Engine For Intelligent Transient Tracking — helped uncover the"terrifying" anomaly.
"Scary Barbie" is the nickname astronomers are calling one of the most energetic and luminous transients ever observed: a supermassive black hole tearing apart a massive star. REFITT"combs through millions of alerts" to help researchers find interesting phenomena in space — but for something hidden in plain sight, like Scary Barbie, the computer didn't even have a"template" to look for it.
A team of"supernova sleuths" found that Scary Barbie's luminosity"exceeds any observed or theorized supernova," leading them to classify the event as aAnd just like Barbie slays a new job, Scary Barbie slayed the internet, spurring memes inspired by the movie template. "Scary Barbie" the black hole first received a random name: ZTF20abrbeie. Its nickname came from the letters in the assigned name and its"terrifying" characteristics, said study co-author &
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