Gravitational Waves and Binary Black Holes

The first binary black-hole merger observed by LIGO

In 2015 scientists have observed for the first time gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe.

Imprints of massive black-hole binaries on neighbouring decihertz ...

The most massive black holes in our Universe form binaries at the centre of merging galaxies. The recent evidence for a gravitational-wave ...

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

The waves originate from the merger of two black holes and are the first direct observation of these exotic objects.

Binary black holes, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

The final merger of comparable mass binary black holes produces an intense burst of gravitational radiation and is one of the strongest sources for both ...

Award # 9800731 - Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Radiation

General relativity, Einstein's reformulation of Newton's gravitational theory, predicts that accelerated masses produce gravitational waves analogous to the way ...

Testing Gravity with Binary Black Hole Gravitational Waves

In this chapter, we discuss a selection of tests of GR applicable to observations of GWs from compact binaries.

Gravitational waves from binary black holes in a self-interacting ...

We investigate the imprints of accretion and dynamical friction on the gravitational-wave signals emitted by binary black holes embedded in ...

If black holes are out of contact in light waves and gravitational ...

Changes in the external gravity fields in an inspiralling binary system release surplus energy as gravitational waves, with nothing from any ...

Binary Black Hole Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves

Gravitational Waves (GWs) have quickly emerged as powerful, indispensabletools for studying gravity in the strong field regime and ...

Simulation of gravitational waves and binary black holes space-times

The main objective of this thesis is to study gravitational radiation along with its associated phenomena, specifically for binary black holes.

Binary Black Hole Mergers: Formation and Populations - Frontiers

This event marks the dawn of gravitational wave astronomy: we now know that binary black holes (BBHs) exist, can reach coalescence by gravitational wave ...

Binary black holes, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

Binary black holes, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity, Joan M Centrella, John G Baker, William D Boggs, Bernard J Kelly, Sean T McWilliams, ...

Research — Binary Black Holes

These events are also a source of powerful gravitational waves and energetic gamma-ray bursts. To understand these phenomena, we need to solve the ...

Black holes of all sizes in new gravitational wave catalogue - UKRI

Gravitational waves generated by a binary black hole system. 8 November 2021. The largest catalogue of gravitational wave events ever has been released ...

Gravitational Waves From Binary Black Hole Mergers: Modeling and ...

Only a few years after the first detection of gravitational waves from coalescing stellar-mass black holes, the field of gravitational-wave astronomy is now ...

"Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in ...

We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers.

Astrophysical Interpretation of a Gravitational-Wave Background ...

Gravitational waves from all of the supermassive black hole binaries in the universe combine to form a stochastic background which we can detect using ...

Binary black hole GW150914 - The Einstein Toolkit

The gravitational waves – which were detected by both LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015 at 09:51 UTC – were generated over a billion years ...

Binary Black Holes in the Gravitational Wave Universe

The discovery by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration of the first source of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW), ...

LIGO and Virgo detectors catch first gravitational wave from binary ...

GW190412 is the first observation of a binary black hole merger where the two black holes have distinctly different masses of about 8 and 30 times that of our ...