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New computer simulation reveals the dynamo that generates large-scale magnetic fields in merging neutron stars more

A new general-relativistic viscous-radiation hydrodynamics simulation indicates that rotating stellar collapses of massive stars to a black hole surrounded by a massive torus can be a central engine for high-energy supernovae, so-called hypernovae. more

Excellent doctoral thesis on tidal effects in coalescing binary stars more

Complex numerical simulation sheds light on an extreme cosmic process more

Date: April 3-5, 2023
Location: AEI Potsdam more

For the first time, scientists model both the merger of a black hole with a neutron star and the subsequent process in one single simulation. more

Numerical simulations reveal details of the coalescence more

For the first time, a high-performance computer will make it possible to simulate gravitational waves, magnetic fields and neutrino physics of neutron stars simultaneously. more

Professor Masaru Shibata, director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, receives the most prestigious Japanese physics award more

The computational astrophysicist will strengthen and broaden the institute’s competence in numerical relativity, astrophysics and fundamental gravity. He will establish the Computational Relativistic Astrophysics division. more