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~ four main areas we study ~

Relativity

Einstein's Version of the Laws of Physics

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Relativity

Compact
Objects

The End Points of Stellar Evolution

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Compact Objects

Gravitational
Waves

Ripples in the Fabric of Spacetime

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Gravitational Waves

Numerical
Relativity

Giving the Problem to a Computer

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Numerical Relativity

Active Research

A tale of tails

Created on December 11, 2024

With our latest preprint [arXiv:2412.06887] (led by Marina De Amicis), SXS simulations have for the first time resolved fully nonlinear “tails” from merging black holes. What’s this all about?

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Mark Scheel elected to Fellow of the American Physical Society

Created on October 4, 2024

We’re so happy that Mark Scheel, one of the senior members of the SXS collaboration, has been elected a 2024 Fellow of the American Physical Society!

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Come, you lost Atoms, to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide,
Return and back into your Sun subside.

From Farid al-Din Attar's twelfth-century masterpiece
The Conference of the Birds