AI exposed the universe’s secrets

Scientists built an AI called SimBIG that looks at galaxy patterns like it's playing cosmic Sudoku, and it’s crushing it. It figured out the “settings” of the universe (like how much dark matter exists) way more accurately, with way less data.

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Old methods needed four times more galaxies to do the same thing. Bonus: This could help settle the universe’s biggest nerd fight: How fast it’s actually expanding. If the numbers still don’t add up? Congrats, we might’ve just found new physics