News and Updates
Gigapixel ray trace of a binary black hole merger
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
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?
Mark Scheel elected to Fellow of the American Physical Society
We’re so happy that Mark Scheel, one of the senior members of the SXS collaboration, has been elected a 2024 Fellow of the American Physical Society!
First binary black hole inspiral, merger, ringdown with SpECTRE
We now have the first complete binary black hole inspiral, merger, & ringdown using our next-generation code SpECTRE! Our preprint [arXiv:2410.00265] presenting this first complete BBH simulation was led by Kyle Nelli (grad student at Caltech) and Geoffrey Lovelace (professor at CSU Fullerton).
SXScon 2024 and SpECTRE community workshop
Many members of the SXS collaboration and the wider NR community met in Providence, RI this August, where the ICERM institute generously hosted our workshop “Simulating Extreme Spacetimes with SpEC and SpECTRE”. (fondly remembered as SXScon 2024).