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This image of a series of numbers taken from scanned textbooks used around the 16th century shows how different the numbers all looked, making it challenging to train an AI to find patterns.

Using AI, historians trace how astronomical ideas spread in the 16th century

houssem23 / November 2, 2024

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun to trace the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the […]

This illustration of a quasar shows a fiery swirl that appears reddish on the edges but gets progressively brighter and more yellow toward the center. A white streak of light shoots outward from the center and a starry sky is seen the in background.

A distant quasar’s black hole is surprisingly large for its galaxy

houssem23 / November 2, 2024

The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical