Principal Investigator:
Bruno Giacomazzo
, University of Trento and INFN-TIFPA, Trento, Italy
HPC Platform used:
SuperMUC of LRZ
Local Project ID:
GRSimStar
What can we learn from some of the most powerful explosions in the universe? Researchers in Italy, USA, and Japan joined forces to study, via computer simulations in general relativity, what happens when two neutron stars in a binary system finally merge. Besides black holes, neutron stars are the most compact objects ever observed. Their collisions can produce bright electromagnetic emission and strong gravitational waves. Understanding how to relate the different signals with the properties of neutron stars may allow us to understand how matter behaves in conditions so extreme that cannot be reproduced on Earth.
