Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University (IMAGE)

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Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University

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Cornell physics and astrophysics professor Saul Teukolsky has been using supercomputers to solve Einstein's equations for black hole mergers for much of his career. Teukolsky and the Cornell-founded Simulation of eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) collaboration group have been calculating and completing a full catalog of theoretical solutions since 2000, when supercomputers first became capable of the task. The LIGO and Virgo group confirmed that the waves came from a black hole merger by comparing their data with a theoretical model developed at Cornell.

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