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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. Your sig... by hackwrench · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your sig just a moment ago said "404 error: sig not found". Now it says simply "sig not found". I was just now going to suggest changing it to "404 error: sig not found. Additionally, a 404 error was encountered why trying to locate an errordocument".

  2. This whole article* without by drachenstern · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a reference to John Titor?

    for the uninitiated: http://www.johntitor.com/

    *and apparently the prev dup article as well, but I could've been wrong.

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