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Advanced Computer Simulation Screensaver

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Black holes merging. Completed on NCSA’s Titan Linux computing cluster, this simulation shows two black holes merging and the resulting ripples of space-time known as gravitational waves. The full simulation, a general relativistic numerical depiction of two black holes orbiting and then merging, represents the first time that three-quarters of a full orbit was computed. An animation of these visualizations was featured in the Discovery Channel documentary “Unfolding Universe.”

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