A postdoctoral researcher in our collaboration, Keefe Mitman —a NASA Hubble Fellow at Cornell University, was recently featured in a Youtube video by journalist Fraser Cain: Everything You Need to Know About Gravitational Waves in 2026. In the video, Keefe and Fraser discuss recent progress by the LVK gravitational-wave detectors as well as the potential future of gravitational-wave science and everything that it has to offer.

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).