The numerical relativity breakthrough for binary black holes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/12/124011MaRDI QIDQ5264448zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ulrich Sperhake

Publication date 27 July 2015

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3997, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/58938/

zbMATH Keywords

black holesgravitaional wavesnumerical relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: The evolution of black-hole binaries in vacuum spacetimes constitutes the two-body problem in general relativity. The solution of this problem in the framework of the Einstein field equations is a substantially more complex exercise than that of the dynamics of two point masses in Newtonian gravity, but it also presents us with a wealth of new exciting physics. Numerical methods are likely the only method to compute the dynamics of black-hole systems in the fully non-linear regime and have been pursued since the 1960s, culminating in dramatic breakthroughs in 2005. Here we review the methodology and the developments that finally gave us a solution of this fundamental problem of Einstein's theory and discuss the breakthrough's implication for the wide range of contemporary black-hole physics.

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