Physics Light has been made into a fluid that simulates space-time By using light to emulate the structure of space-time, researchers can better understand black holes – and the exotic objects ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

More information: Kota Hayashi et al, Jet from Binary Neutron Star Merger with Prompt Black Hole Formation, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.211407 ...

The simulation run by Hayashi and his colleagues sheds new light on the complex physics of binary neutron star mergers, showing that when these mergers are followed by the formation of black holes ...

Black hole simulation (IMAGE) Morgridge Institute for Research Caption Artist impression of a neural network that connects the observations (left) to the models (right).