Gravity and astrophysics at UMiss

The eXtreme Digital Request Allocation Committee (XRAC) recommended an extension of our NSF Grant PHY-090003 (High energy grazing collisions of black holes, PI: Ulrich Sperhake, Co-Is: Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Frans Pretorius). This grant will provide us with 2,000,000 core hours from XSEDE (formerly known as TeraGrid) to study black hole collisions.

Our recent paper on floating orbits was published in Physical Review Letters. The INAF website has a nice outreach article on our work. INAF is the Italian Institute of Astrophysics, and the article is in Italian (you have been warned!). Thanks to Marco Galliani for the write-up!