Ausgewählte Highlights der Forschung am AEI

A new compact inertial sensor for a wide range of physics experiments mehr

Scientists have studied what happens when two stellar-mass black holes merge near a more massive black hole. They have calculated how strong space-time curvature modifies the gravitational waveforms and how this might be detected in future observations. mehr

Improving GEO600's beam splitter thermal compensation system mehr

Finding kicks from remnant black holes can help identify the spin precession of binary black holes in data from current gravitational-wave detectors. mehr

Warp drives are staples of science fiction, and in principle could propel spaceships faster than the speed of light. However, there are many problems with constructing them in practice, such as the requirement for an exotic type of matter with negative energy. Nevertheless, physicists have been exploring the theoretical possibility of warp drives for decades, and a new study published in the Open Journal of Astrophysics takes things a step further – simulating the gravitational waves such a drive might emit if it broke down. mehr

Using the gravitational-wave memory for a new test of general relativity and to reveal fundamental spacetime symmetries mehr

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. mehr