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Thanks to Artificial intelligence scientists are able to look into the heart of remote galaxies, according to HNGN.

Scientists can understand phenomena such as "matter falling into black holes and supersonic galactic winds". While this process has been very difficult to solve, AI can enable some solutions.

"I love artificial intelligence. It was actually a very simple program to write, once I [learned] how," said PhD student Elise Hampton, who is studying at the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. "The program took eight minutes to [analyze] 300,000 data points from 1,188 galaxies. For one person to do it would have taken years."

Getting inspired by neural networks, a scientist created a program to find the most "messy" and turbulent galaxies from a sample of thousands, reports the Australian National University. The brain has inspired the Artificial Neural Networks, a group of computer programs that are dependent on "interconnected set of individual processors", just like neurons.

Hampton studies galaxies showing "brightly glowing centers driven by massive black holes". These beam out forceful galactic winds. "We believe these winds blow so much material out of the galaxies that they eventually starve themselves to death," she said.

With galactic winds, new stars can be formed, which makes Hampton hope that he can gain insight into these galaxies, which will impact stellar births and deaths. These messy galaxies can be studied by distinguishing their internal light spectra.

The findings were presented at the 25th Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference.