Wednesday, April 19, 2006
NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation
"NASA scientists have achieved a breakthrough in simulating the merging of two same-size non-spinning black holes based on a new translation of Einstein's general relativity equations. The scientists accomplished the feat by using some brand-new tensor calculus translations on the Linux-running, 10,240 Itanium processor SGI Altix Columbia supercomputer. These are reportedly the largest astrophysical calculations ever performed on a NASA supercomputer. According to NASA's Chief Scientist, "Now when we observe a black hole merger with LIGO or LISA, we can test Einstein's theory and see whether or not he was right.""
source:http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/04/19/1443210.shtml
source:http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/04/19/1443210.shtml
# posted by dark master : 4/19/2006 09:58:00 AM
