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We compute gravitational radiation waveforms, spectra and energies for a point particle of mass $m_0$ falling from rest at radius $r_0$ into a Schwarzschild hole of mass $M$. This radiation is found to lowest order in $(m_0/M)$ with the use…

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We study the head-on collision of two highly boosted equal mass, nonrotating black holes. We determine the waveforms, radiated energies, and mode excitation in the center of mass frame for a variety of boosts. For the first time we are able…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 U. Sperhake , V. Cardoso , F. Pretorius , E. Berti , J. A. Gonzalez

We compare the results of constructing binary black hole initial data with three different decompositions of the constraint equations of general relativity. For each decomposition we compute the initial data using a superposition of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Gregory B. Cook , Saul A. Teukolsky

We consider the evolution of sub-horizon-sized black holes which are formed during the high energy phase of the braneworld scenario. These black holes are long-lived due to modified evaporation and accretion of radiation during the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Majumdar , A. Mehta , J. M. Luck

We study gravitational wave emission, zoom-whirl behavior and the resulting spin of the remnant black hole in highly boosted collisions of equal-mass, non spinning black-hole binaries with generic impact parameter.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 U. Sperhake , V. Cardoso , F. Pretorius , E. Berti , T. Hinderer , N. Yunes

We derive analytically the amplitude of the quadratic quasi-normal mode generated in the ringdown stage of the gravitational waveform produced by the ultra-relativistic head-on collision of two non-spinning Schwarzschild black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Alex Kehagias , Davide Perrone , Antonio Riotto

We study head-on collisions of unequal mass black hole binaries in D=5 space-time dimensions, with mass ratios between 1:1 and 1:4. Information about gravitational radiation is extracted by using the Kodama-Ishibashi gauge-invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-16 Helvi Witek , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Carlos Herdeiro , Ulrich Sperhake , Miguel Zilhao

We present a preliminary study of the multipolar structure of gravitational radiation from spinning black hole binary mergers. We consider three different spinning binary configurations: (1) one "hang-up" run, where the black holes have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Berti , V. Cardoso , J. A. Gonzalez , U. Sperhake , B. Bruegmann

Numerical relativity, applied to collisions of black holes, starts with initial data for black holes already in each other's strong field. The initial hypersurface data typically used for computation is based on mathematical simplifying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Carlos O. Lousto , Richard H. Price

We present a semi-analytical approach to the interaction of two (originally) Kerr black holes through a head-on collision process. An expression for the rate of emission of gravitational radiation is derived from an exact solution to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Marcelo E. Araujo , Patricio S. Letelier , Samuel R. Oliveira

We have investigated the upper bound of the radiation energy in the head-on collision of two Myers-Perry black holes. Initially, the two black holes are far away from each other, and they become one black hole after the collision. We have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-01 Bogeun Gwak , Bum-Hoon Lee

We perform numerical-relativity simulations of high-energy head-on collisions of charged black holes with the same charge-to-mass ratio $\lambda$. We find that electromagnetic interactions have subdominant effects already at low Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-14 Gabriele Bozzola

We present a detailed, fully nonlinear study of binary systems involving one black hole and one boson star, considering the effects of both a quartic self-interaction and a solitonic potential for the scalar field. First, we show the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Gareth Arturo Marks , Seppe J. Staelens , Ulrich Sperhake

The formation of trapped surfaces in the head-on collision of shock waves in conformal and non-conformal backgrounds is investigated. The backgrounds in- clude all interesting confining and non-confining backgrounds that may be relevant for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Elias Kiritsis , Anastasios Taliotis

When a stellar binary encounters a spinning black hole, interesting phenomena might result due to the mutual interaction between the binary spin, orbital angular momentum and the black hole spin. Here we consider such encounters between an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-09 Aryabrat Mahapatra , Adarsh Pandey , Pritam Banerjee , Tapobrata Sarkar

We present the first results in a new program intended to make the best use of all available technologies to provide an effective understanding of waves from inspiralling black hole binaries in time for imminent observations. In particular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 J. Baker , B. Bruegmann , M. Campanelli , C. O. Lousto

We evaluate how much energy can be converted into gravitational radiation in head-on collision of black holes. We estimate it by the area theorem of black hole horizon incorporating merging entropy of colliding black holes from a viewpoint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-24 Masaru Siino

An orbiting black hole binary will generate strong gravitational radiation signatures, making these binaries important candidates for detection in gravitational wave observatories. The gravitational radiation is characterized by the orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Erin Bonning , Pedro Marronetti , David Neilsen , Richard Matzner

The Newman-Penrose constants of the spacetime corresponding to the development of the Brill-Lindquist initial data are calculated by making use of a particular representation of spatial infinity due to H. Friedrich. The Brill-Lindquist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Dain , J. A. Valiente-Kroon

We explore the gravitational-wave emission from head-on collisions of equal-mass solitonic boson-star binaries from simulations spanning a two-dimensional parameter space, consisting of the central scalar-field amplitude of the stars and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Bo-Xuan Ge , Eugene A. Lim , Ulrich Sperhake , Tamara Evstafyeva , Daniela Cors , Eloy de Jong , Robin Croft , Thomas Helfer