Posts tagged black-holes 
PS3s used to simulate black hole collisions
It's like our favorite old-school commercial: "Mr. Owl, how many Playstation 3s does it take to simulate a collision between two black holes?" Apparently, the answer is 16. A group at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth hopes to use a cluster of 16 PS3s to run the simulation, specificall...
PS3 to simulate black hole collisions
How much do you value your brain? Hopefully enough to know not to fry it by trying to understand all the research, formulas, and theories behind the project to use 16 PS3's to simulate a collision of two black holes. Headed in part by Guarav Khanna at UMassD, the project ... well ... it's hard to ex...
