287,872 Supermassive Black Holes Masses: Deep Learning Approaching Reverberation Mapping Accuracy
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2025-12-05 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
We present a population-scale catalogue of 287,872 supermassive black hole masses with high accuracy. Using a deep encoder-decoder network trained on optical spectra with reverberation-mapping (RM) based labels of 849 quasars and applied to all SDSS quasars up to , our method achieves a root-mean-square error of \,dex, a relative uncertainty of , and coefficient of determination with respect to RM-based masses, far surpassing traditional single-line virial estimators. Notably, the high accuracy is maintained for both low () and high () mass quasars, where empirical relations are unreliable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.04803,
title = {287,872 Supermassive Black Holes Masses: Deep Learning Approaching Reverberation Mapping Accuracy},
author = {Yuhao Lu and HengJian SiTu and Jie Li and Yixuan Li and Yang Liu and Wenbin Lin and Yu Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.04803},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
14 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to Journal of High Energy Astrophysics