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New Simons Collaboration Explores Black Holes and Strong Gravity
By Thomas Sumner
August 11, 2025
Nicolás Yunes of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will lead the collaboration’s work to better understand the physics of strong gravity, such as that of black holes.
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New $8-million Simons Collaboration on Black Holes and Strong Gravity will decipher secrets encoded in gravitational wave data
By Siv Schwink
August 11, 2025
The Simons Foundation announced today it will fund a new multidisciplinary multi-institutional collaboration focused on strong gravity. The Simons Collaboration on Black Holes and Strong Gravity will support the work of 12 co-PIs at 12 separate institutions—gravity and black-hole experts working in theoretical physics, mathematics, numerical computation, AI-assisted data analysis, and gravitational wave observation—to develop a robust theoretical framework for deciphering the secrets encoded in gravitational wave (GW) data, including possible extensions to Einstein’s theory of general relativity. READ MORE…
Ringing Black Hole Confirms Einstein and Hawking’s Predictions
By Mara Johnson-Groh
September 10, 2025
New observations of a merger of two black holes confirm decades-old predictions by Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Roy Kerr. The findings emerged from analyses led by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists using the clearest measurements to date of a black hole merger taken by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). READ MORE…
Simons Collaboration ON Black Holes and Strong Gravity 