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Astrophysicists use AI to precisely calculate universe’s ‘settings’ - C C - Aug 26, 2024
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1055632
INTRO: The standard model of the universe relies on just six numbers. Using a new approach powered by artificial intelligence, researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues extracted information hidden in the distribution of galaxies to estimate the values of five of these so-called cosmological parameters with incredible precision.
The results were a significant improvement over the values produced by previous methods. Compared to conventional techniques using the same galaxy data, the approach yielded less than half the uncertainty for the parameter describing the clumpiness of the universe’s matter. The AI-powered method also closely agreed with estimates of the cosmological parameters based on observations of other phenomena, such as the universe’s oldest light.
The researchers present their method, the Simulation-Based Inference of Galaxies (or SimBIG), in a series of recent papers, including a new study published August 21 in Nature Astronomy... (MORE - details)
PAPER: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02344-2