Thanks to a newly expanded app, more amateur astronomers can now join the hunt for black holes.
Thats where citizen scientistsand the newly updated appcome in.
They are then tasked with looking for potential kilonovasbrief flashes of light resulting from neutron stars merging.
You could be the amateur astronomer who discovers the next black hole.© NASA/JPL-Caltech
Those collisions lead to a stellar collapse, forming a black hole.
However, not all flashes of light seen by the telescopes are kilonovas.
Some could be satellites orbiting Earth or merely a glitch.
The data is then used to train a machine learning system to better identify the birth of black holes.
The app supplies in depth instructions such that even a novice can contribute to the search.
Launched in November, 2023, the app was originally available only in English and Dutch.
Black Hole Finder is available viaGoogle Play, theApp Store, and as aweb app.
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