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More quickly rotating black holes

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Created on Thursday, 04 December 2014 19:17
The SXS collaboration can now simulate binaries containing black holes that spin at a rate of 99.4% of their maximum theoretical value, the fastest spins ever simulated.  The technical improvements allowing such large spins are reported here (http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1803) and an investigation of the maximum spin during binary coalescence can be found here (http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7297)

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