2010

Numerical relativity for D dimensional space-times: head-on collisions of black holes and gravitational wave extraction

Witek, Helvi, Zilhao, Miguel, Gualtieri, Leonardo et al.

Understand

Black objects in higher dimensional space-times have a remarkably richer structure than their four dimensional counterparts.

  • They appear in a variety of configurations (e.g.
  • black holes, black branes, black rings, black Saturns), and display complex stability phase diagrams.
  • They might also play a key role in high energy physics: for energies above the fundamental Planck scale, gravity is the dominant interaction which, together with the hoop-conjecture, implies that the trans-Planckian scattering of point particles should be well described by black hole scattering.

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