Black Hole Black Boxes: Numerical Black Hole Metrics via AInstein Neural Networks

The AInstein architecture introduced an unsupervised neural method for solving the Riemannian Einstein equations on arbitrary manifolds. This Physics Informed Neural Network approach (PINN) is extended here to Lorentzian signature, validated by recovering the maximally extended Schwarzschild geometry, and tested as novel search method for arbitrary black hole solutions. The topology is built into the architecture by treating S2 globally through its standard embedding, such that the network learns an ambient metric on the manifold ℝ2 × ℝ3, where Penrose coordinates are chosen for ℝ2 and the metric on S2 is obtained by pullback. The architecture is first trained with the objective of recovering the Schwarzschild metric via losses encoding the vacuum Einstein equation, a quadratic Weyl scalar constraint, and the SO(3) symmetry of the resultant metric; directly motivated by the Birkhoff--Jebsen theorem. Following this, the objective is generalised to use the Petrov speciality index, a horizon curvature anchor, and a trapped-surface constraint, to allow search for algebraically general Petrov type I solutions, finding potentially novel general-type Lorentzian Einstein metrics with a genuinely trapped interior.