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NASA Scientists Simulate Black Hole Collision

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. I need to learn how to read by kko · · Score: 0, Troll

    I read the title as NASA Scientists Simulate BackHoe Collision...

    Hoek on phoniks woerk for me!

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