The same technology that we use to label or watermark genai image and video content could be used to label n-body gravity and black hole images.
"Is this a direct physical observation? Is this retouched; did they add color, did they refocus, etc? Is this a presumptively contrived simulation rendering that shouldn't have same strength of evidence as a less biased direct physical observation?"
Almost all images and videos of black holes are simulations just.
This likely affects our intuition. People try to fit models to observations. If the observations are conjecture but aren't so labeled, then the people have unfortunately biased intuition.
In the interest of progress in science, What are some of the worst black hole and gravity computer graphics you've seen?
How could science programming improve its citations in presenting simulated computer graphics as science evidence?
How could an "unproven science rendering labeling guideline" be politely and effectively shared with CG artists, physicists, and science content producers?
> Astronomers have been unable to observe Sgr A* in the optical spectrum because of the effect of 25 magnitudes of extinction (absorption and scattering) by dust and gas between the source and Earth. [26]
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> In May 2022, astronomers released the first image of the accretion disk around the horizon of Sagittarius A*, confirming it to be a black hole, using the Event Horizon Telescope, a world-wide network of radio observatories. [13] This is the second confirmed image of a black hole, after Messier 87's supermassive black hole in 2019. [14][15] The black hole itself is not seen; as light is incapable of escaping the immense gravitational force of a black hole," only nearby objects whose behavior is influenced by the black hole can be observed. The observed radio and infrared energy emanates from gas and dust heated to millions of degrees while falling into the black hole. [16]*
EHT: Event Horizon Telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
First EHT image of Sagittarius A*: (2017, 2022) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EHT_Saggitarius_A_bl...
"Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way’s central black hole" (2024-03) https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2406/
ScholarlyArticle: "First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring" (2024) https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df0 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df0
ScholarlyArticle: "First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII.: Physical interpretation of the polarized ring" (2024) https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df1 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df1
"IPTC publishes metadata guidance for AI-generated “synthetic media”" (2023) https://iptc.org/news/iptc-publishes-metadata-guidance-for-a...
C2PA: Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) > Specifications > Attestation: https://c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/1.4/attestati...