Warping Space and Time: Simulating Black Holes on Supercomputers
Beckman Auditorium
- Public Event
This event was digitally recorded. A copy is available through Caltech's Institute Archives for a fee.
Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics, Cornell University
Introductory Speaker
Kip Thorne
Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech
Numerical simulations on supercomputers have probed naked singularities in spacetime and discovered toroidal black holes, and have forced Stephen Hawking to concede a bet to Caltech's Kip Thorne and John Preskill. A Cornell/Caltech collaboration will simulate collisions of black holes, testing general relativity's prediction that black holes exist, and providing tools to interpret the gravity wave observations of LIGO.
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The warping of space-time caused by a black hole spiraling into a massive black hole
