New insights into black hole scattering and gravitational waves unveiled

Black hole dance illuminates hidden math of the universe

Scientists have made the most accurate predictions yet of the gravitational waves produced when two black holes fly past each other.

Emergence of Calabi–Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hole scattering

When two massive objects (black holes, neutron stars or stars) in our universe fly past each other, their gravitational interactions deflect their trajectories1,2. The gravitational waves emitted in the related bound-orbit system—the binary inspiral—are now routinely detected by gravitational-wave observatories3. Theoretical physics needs to provide high-precision templates to make use of unprecedented sensitivity and precision of the data from …

Better Solutions To Black Hole Collisions Thanks To 6-Dimensional Donuts

In relativity, you can’t solve the two-body problem exactly… but a new approach is promising.

Gravitational wave physics is dependent on an accurate understanding of black holes encounters. A complex spatial concept of string theory has now helped

New insights into black hole scattering and gravitational waves unveiled

A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of black holes and neutron stars. This research, led by Professor Jan Plefka at Humboldt University of Berlin and Queen Mary University London's Dr. Gustav Mogull, formerly at Humboldt Universität and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), and conducted in collaboration with an intern…

Black Hole Mergers Show Strange Mathematical Link to String Theory

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use in modeling gravitational waves