CNN Indonesia
Tuesday, 05 Mar 2024 12:11 IWST
Illustration. A new application on the iPhone allows users to check the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way via cellphone. (Photo: iStockphoto/Cappan)
Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Black hole atau black hole is an astronomical object that is often the subject of research scientist. To find this astronomical object, experts usually need a space telescope to see it.
However, now we can see black holes just through the cellphone in our hand. How to?
Launch Space, a new iPhone app allows users to check out the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way using just their smartphone. This free application called Galactic Compass was developed by Matthew Webb and released on the Apple Store on February 15.
The app is designed to always point users towards the Galactic Center.
The inspiration that Matthew developed for this application came from his years of learning to always know where the Galactic Center is. He wrote this on his personal website which also served as an announcement for the launch of the Galactic Compass application.
“I end up pointing at the sidewalk, or down the street, and thinking, ‘yeah, that’s where it is,” Matthew Webb said in a statement the post in a blog, Thursday (15/2).
“Finally I have an image of myself, the Earth, and the solar system, and the center of the galaxy which was originally spinning around me, and now in reverse, I’m spinning it. It’s a very wild situation,” he added.
Matthew developed Galactic Compass with the help of artificial intelligence(AI) ChatGPT and integrated complex calculations to find the Galactic Center in relation to the date and location of the user while using the application.
Visually, the Galactic Compass application is created with a 3D arrow that can rotate in real-time in response to device orientation.
The user must position the cellphone on a flat surface so that the arrow on the screen can orientate itself correctly and point to the Galactic Center as a fixed point.
“I use SwiftAA. Create a new Swift object that takes the device’s current date and location, as well as providing the azimuth and altitude of the galactic center (I’m looking for the coordinates of the central black hole as a proxy).
Using the new Galactic Center object, display the azimuth and altitude in a new section on the debug screen,” Matthew said.
According to him, this application always points to the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy.
“Once you can follow it, you begin to see the center of the galaxy as the true fixed point, and we are the ones moving and turning. There it remains, the giant black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, solid as a rock, eternal. We live the day -our day; the black hole is always there,” he said.
Even though he is still not satisfied with his application, Matthew said the Galactic Compass application is not bad enough for collaboration with someone who cannot create applications and AI technology.
‘The Galactic Compass is still enough’Yankeesof course, but that’s not bad for a collaboration between someone who can’t make an app and an AI that’s only a year old,” Matthew said.
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