The binary black hole explorer: on-the-fly visualizations of precessing binary black holes

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 see the binary dynamics in real time. Technical blah blah: we attach a visualization tool to a numerical relativity surrogate model. Are you ready to be a binary black hole explorer? Here!

ps. Folks are having fun with this! From mikesmathpage.

V. Varma, L. C. Stein, D. Gerosa.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 36 (2019) 095007. arXiv:1811.06552 [astro-ph.HE].