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New black hole merger simulations could help power next-gen gravitational wave detectors by Luke Auburn for RIT News Rochester NY (SPX) Nov 09, 2020
Rochester Institute of Technology scientists have developed new simulations of black holes with widely varying masses merging that could help power the next generation of gravitational wave detectors. RIT Professor Carlos Lousto and Research Associate James Healy from RIT's School of Mathematical Sciences outline these record-breaking simulations in a new Physical Review Letters paper. As scientists develop more advanced detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), they will need more sophisticated simulations to compare the signals they receive with. The simulations calculate properties about the merged black holes including the final mass, spin, and recoil velocity, as well as peak frequency, amplitude, and luminosity of the gravitational waveforms the mergers produce. "Right now, we can only observe black holes of comparable masses because they are bright and generate a lot of radiation," said Lousto. "We know there should be black holes of very different masses that we don't have access to now through current technology and we will need these third generational detectors to find them. In order for us to confirm that we are observing holes of these different masses, we need these theoretical predictions and that's what we are providing with these simulations." The scientists from RIT's Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation created a series of simulations showing what happens when black holes of increasingly disparate masses-up to a record-breaking ratio of 128:1-orbit 13 times and merge. "From a computational point of view, it really is testing the limits of our method to solve Einstein's general relativity equations on supercomputers," said Lousto. "It pushes to the point that no other group in the world has been able to come close to. Technically, it's very difficult to handle two different objects like two black holes, in this case one is 128 times larger than the other." Collaborators on the project included Lousto, Healy, and Nicole Rosato '18 MS (applied and computational mathematics), a mathematical modeling Ph.D. student. The research was supported through National Science Foundation funding and the simulations were performed using local computing clusters as well as national supercomputers such including the Texas Advanced Computing Center's Frontera System and Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment.
RUDN University physicist developed software solution to measure the black holes stability Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 Even if a black hole can be described with a mathematical model, it doesn't mean it exists in reality. Some theoretical models are unstable: though they can be used to run mathematical calculations, from the point of view of physics they make no sense. A physicist from RUDN University developed an approach to finding such instability regions. The work was published in the Physics of the Dark Universe journal. The existence of black holes was first predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativi ... read more
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