Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

2 of 63 comments (clear)

  1. Summary by miikrr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The first video is looks pointless. It just shows two black holes circling around each other doing nothing, and then the clip just ends. Einstein's clip shows two black holes merging into one big-ass black hole, which shows a much more interesting theory than "nothing really happens when two black holes meet, but here's a video anyway!"

  2. Re:Money well spent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hey champ: NASA is about real research too, not just strapping yourself to rockets and aiming for the nearest rocky, spherical object.