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The Event Horizon Telescope, an Earth-sized interferometer, aims to capture an image of a black hole's event horizon to test the theory of general relativity and probe accretion processes.
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The impressive images from the Event Horizon Telescope sharpen the conflict between our observations of gravitational phenomena and the principles of quantum mechanics. Two related scenarios for reconciling quantum mechanics with the…
(abridged) In this second paper in our publication series, we present the open-source Zingularity framework for parameter inference with deep Bayesian artificial neural networks. We carried out out supervised learning with synthetic…