AI could drown the noise to hear gravitational waves from cosmic collisions
India TodayGravitational waves, ripples in space-time caused by powerful cosmic events and first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, have fascinated scientists since their discovery. Gravitational waves are primarily detected using sophisticated instruments like ground-based interferometers—such as LIGO and VIRGO—and pulse timing arrays like the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. Researchers from Amity University, Anant National University, and University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, examined four types of gravitational waves, each requiring unique detection and analysis techniques. Tools like convolutional neural networks, autoencoders, and long short-term memory networks are now being used to detect gravitational waves and estimate their properties with remarkable precision.