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From the July 2008 issue

When black holes merge

Numerical relativity researcher Manuela Campanelli describes the culminating moments of the merger of two black holes.
By Daniel Pendick | Published: July 25, 2008
Manuela Campanelli, the director of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, heads of group of researchers who simulate the merger of black holes in a supercomputer.

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