NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation

DoctorBit writes "NASA scientists have achieved a breakthrough in simulating the merging of two same-size non-spinning black holes based on a new translation of Einstein's general relativity equations. The scientists accomplished the feat by using some brand-new tensor calculus translations on the Linux-running, 10,240 Itanium processor SGI Altix Columbia supercomputer. These are reportedly the largest astrophysical calculations ever performed on a NASA supercomputer. According to NASA's Chief Scientist, "Now when we observe a black hole merger with LIGO or LISA, we can test Einstein's theory and see whether or not he was right.""

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Next thing U know

[Akoma The Immortal]

We will loose it in the center of the hearth and using it as a bouncing laser mirror to propel cities into space, while a mother at home will infect the 'net' and kill anything that threaten her mastery of her "domain".

Sigh.. :)

WoW Nasa

[bigwavejas]

I've been riding past a black hole on my Kodo for months now in Silithus. For the Horde!!!