AI is helping astronomers make new discoveries about the universe faster than ever before

satellite dishes at the bottom of the image are pointed toward a star-studded sky with the bulge of the Milky Way stretching across the center of the image.

This article was originally published in The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

The famous first image of a black hole just got two times sharper. A research team used artificial intelligence to dramatically improve upon its first image from 2019, which now shows the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy as darker and bigger than the first image depicted.