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NASA Scientists Simulate Black Hole Collision

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-bangs-and-other-fun-videos dept.

Krishna Dagli writes to tell us Yahoo! News is reporting that NASA scientists have managed to simulate the merger of two massive orbiting black holes. Using technology from Silicon Graphics, Inc. built from 20 SGI Altix systems the team was able to show how the resulting gravitational waves would interact with surrounding space.

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  1. didn't know processors have memory by uioreanu · · Score: 3, Funny
    By linking four, 512-processor Altix systems .... NASA enabled the scientists to access all of the processors' memory at once.
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    cut this signatures madness. stop reading them now!
  2. imagine by Criliric · · Score: 2, Funny

    imagine a beowolf.... nevermind :)

  3. Black holes colliding? by MindCheese · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, that would suck.

    1. Re:Black holes colliding? by MickDownUnder · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think you meant.... that would be heavy man !

  4. Dude ... by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 4, Funny
    Man, that would suck
    ... don't be so dramatic, intellectual and moral black holes collide on Capitol Hill every day and we still haven't been sucked in.
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    Only to idiots, are orders laws.
    -- Henning von Tresckow
  5. Re:That's good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Poke them in the eye, just don't get your hand stuck