Space Warps project uses AI to seek 10,000 new gravitational lenses with Euclid data
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Updated · starlust.org · Apr 22
Space Warps project uses AI to seek 10,000 new gravitational lenses with Euclid data
10 articles · Updated · starlust.org · Apr 22
Citizen scientists will access early Euclid telescope images, with AI pre-selecting 300,000 candidates from 72 million galaxies for inspection.
The project, led by Aprajita Verma at Oxford, aims to quadruple all previous gravitational lens discoveries using Euclid’s unprecedented sky coverage and data volume.
Identifying these lenses will help map light and dark matter, offering new insights into the universe’s expansion and structure, especially when combined with future missions like NASA’s Roman Space Telescope.
With 72 million galaxies to search, how does this project turn everyday people into cosmic detectives?
As AI learns from citizen scientists, could it make human observers obsolete in astronomy?
Could 10,000 new cosmic lenses reveal the first major cracks in Einstein's theory of gravity?
If dark matter is a quantum wave, could these newly found lenses finally prove it?
Could citizen scientists prove the Milky Way's core is not a black hole, but dark matter?
Will mapping dark matter's 'scaffolding' finally explain the mysterious energy tearing our universe apart?