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Illustration of the new method: the researchers use five-dimensional black holes (right) to calculate the phase diagram of strongly coupled matter (middle), enabling simulations of neutron star mergers and the produced gravitational waves (left).

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Goethe University Frankfurt / Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang

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