AI accelerates elucidation of nuclear forces

Innovative machine learning uses data of neutron stars

2026/02/26

Which complex forces operate in atomic nuclei? A research team with participation of TU Darmstadt has used astrophysical explosions to understand them better. The results were published in the prestigious journal „Nature Communications“.

The picture shows a neutron star as bright white spot in the violet field in the center. With a diameter of only 25 km, the neutron star has 1.5 times the mass of the sun which has a diameter of 1,4 million km.

The publication

Rahul Somasundaram, Isak Svensson et al., „Inferring three-neutron couplings from multi-messenger neutron-star observations”, In: „Nature Communications“. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64756-6