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Probing perturbative scattering with SpEC
Created on November 14, 2025
How much information can we gain by pushing numerical relativity to its limit by simulating black hole scattering encounters when one is much larger than the other or when they are far apart and only weakly interacting? Our latest preprint (led by Oliver Long) explores these extreme regions of the black-hole scattering parameter space using simulations generated using the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC).
Binary black hole scattering with SpEC
Created on July 14, 2025
What happens when high-velocity black holes hurtle past each other in a close encounter, deflecting through spacetime but never merging? Our latest preprint (led by Oliver Long) presents the first simulations of black-hole scattering generated using the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC).
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Come, you lost Atoms, to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide,
Return and back into your Sun subside.From Farid al-Din Attar's twelfth-century masterpiece
The Conference of the Birds