As you can imagine, I’m kind of obsessed with black hole binaries. So easy (let’s face it, a black hole is easy! Just mass and spin), but at the same time so terribly complicated… Happy to present our attempt to … Continue reading
November 15, 2018
Month: November 2018
November 14, 2018
Wide nutation: binary black-hole spins repeatedly oscillating from full alignment to full anti-alignment
Latest in the series of our spin-precession papers, here we found a thing that was worthy of a new name: wide nutation (we had wide precession before, but this is better). These are black-hole binary configurations where the angle between any … Continue reading