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A new numerical method is introduced to study the problem of time evolution of generic non-linear dynamical systems in four-dimensional spacetimes. It is assumed that the time level surfaces are foliated by a one-parameter family of…

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Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) pair and form bound binaries after their host galaxies merge. In a gas-rich merger, accretion discs are expected to form around the binary and its components. These discs control the binary orbital evolution…

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It has been proved that the charged stringy black holes are stable under the perturbations of massive charged scalar fields. However, superradiant instability can be generated by adding the mirror-like boundary condition to the composed…

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As 2 black holes bound to each other in a close binary approach merger their inspiral time becomes shorter than the characteristic inflow time of surrounding orbiting matter. Using an innovative technique in which we represent the changing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Scott C. Noble , Bruno C. Mundim , Hiroyuki Nakano , Julian H. Krolik , Manuela Campanelli , Yosef Zlochower , Nicolás Yunes

This work introduces advanced computational techniques for modeling the time evolution of compact binary systems using machine learning. The dynamics of compact binary systems, such as black holes and neutron stars, present significant…

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Building upon the long-standing paradigm that dynamics near a spacelike singularity are governed by a sequence of Kasner epochs, we demonstrate that this picture is fundamentally altered when higher-curvature or quantum gravitational…

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Rapid binary population synthesis codes are often used to investigate the evolution of compact-object binaries. They typically rely on analytical fits of single-star evolutionary tracks and parameterized models for interactive phases of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Monica Gallegos-Garcia , Christopher P L Berry , Pablo Marchant , Vicky Kalogera

We present a semi-analytical binary black hole (BBH) metric approximation that models the entire evolution of the system from inspiral to merger. The metric is constructed as a boosted Kerr-Schild superposition following post-Newtonian (PN)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Luciano Combi , Sean M. Ressler

Moving puncture simulations of black hole binaries rely on a specific gauge choice that leads to approximately stationary coordinates near each black hole. Part of the shift condition is a damping parameter, which has to be properly chosen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 Doreen Mueller , Bernd Bruegmann

We consider the evolution of a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) surrounded by a retrograde accretion disk. Assuming the disk is exactly in the binary plane and transfers energy and angular momentum to the binary via direct gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik

Black hole binaries exhibit dramatic changes in their X-ray spectral and timing properties over time, providing important clues about the physical processes that occur in these systems. Black holes and black hole candidates are prime…

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Fallback supernovae and the collapsar scenario for long-gamma ray burst and hypernovae have received considerable interest as pathways to black-hole formation and extreme transient events. Consistent simulations of these scenarios require a…

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Multiple approaches are required to study the evolution of black-hole binaries. While the post-Newtonian approximation is sufficient to describe the early inspiral (even from infinitely large orbital separation), only numerical relativity…

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We investigated the evolution of the black hole binary formed by the merging of two galaxies each containing a central massive black hole. Our main goal here is to determine if the black hole binary can merge through the hardening by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Junichiro Makino

We describe recent numerical simulations of the merger of a class of equal mass, non-spinning, eccentric binary black hole systems in general relativity. We show that with appropriate fine-tuning of the initial conditions to a region of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Frans Pretorius , Deepak Khurana

We calculate puncture initial data corresponding to both single and binary black hole solutions of the constraint equations by means of a pseudo-spectral method applied in a single spatial domain. Introducing appropriate coordinates, these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcus Ansorg , Bernd Bruegmann , Wolfgang Tichy

Recent demonstrations of unexcised black holes traversing across computational grids represent a significant advance in numerical relativity. Stable and accurate simulations of multiple orbits, and their radiated waves, result. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 James R. van Meter , John G. Baker , Michael Koppitz , Dae-Il Choi

We study the suppression of reflections in the numerical simulation of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for strong-field problems on a grid using exterior complex scaling (ECS) as absorbing boundary condition. It is shown that the…

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We consider the numerical evolution of dynamic black hole initial data sets with a full 3D, nonlinear evolution code. These data sets consist of single black holes distorted by strong gravitational waves, and mimic the late stages of…

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