Colliding black hole simulations

Nature (London, April 20) -- Researchers now report that, for the first time, they have simulated the collision of two supermassive black holes using a full-blown treatment of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, allowing a 3D portrayal of these disks of magnetized matter. Stuart Shapiro of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently presented movies of the simulations at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore, Maryland. Also: i09 (April 21), Huffington Post (April 22), Zee News (April 22), News-Medical (April 22), Business Standard (April 22), Medical Xpress (April 21).