Spacetimes Generated By Computers: Black Holes With Gravitational Radiation

L. Smarr, Ann. N.Y. Acad. of Sciences, 302, 569-604 (1977).

Abstract

The next decade will see the development of a number of new types of sensitive gravitational wave antennae which will probe the universe for a variety of new relativistic sources (see Thorne for an excellent review). As a parallel program, computer programs must be designed that allow theorists to predict the gravity wave signature of these expected sources. These programs will solve the full Einstein equations of general relativity (or other proposed theories of gravity), to build space-times containing colliding black holes or collapsing nonspherical stars.

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