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Gigapixel ray trace of a binary black hole merger
Created on May 7, 2025
Happy Black Hole Week! To celebrate, we’re releasing the highest-resolution ray-traced still from one of our simulations to date. This image was produced by Cornell research associate William Throwe. Use your scroll wheel or the +/- buttons to zoom in/out, or the icon to go full screen!
A tale of tails
Created on December 11, 2024
With our latest preprint [arXiv:2412.06887] (led by Marina De Amicis), SXS simulations have for the first time resolved fully nonlinear “tails” from merging black holes. What’s this all about?
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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