Understanding the predictions of general relativity for the dynamical interactions of two black
holes has been a long-standing unsolved problem in theoretical physics. Black-hole …

Numerical relativity is the most promising tool for theoretically modeling the inspiral and
coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries, which, in turn, are among the most …

This article provides the details on the technical derivation of the gravitational waveform and
total gravitational-wave energy flux of nonspinning compact binary systems to the fourth post …

We present a new algorithm for evolving orbiting black-hole binaries that does not require
excision or a corotating shift. Our algorithm is based on a novel technique to handle the …

This graduate-level, course-based text is devoted to the 3+ 1 formalism of general relativity,
which also constitutes the theoretical foundations of numerical relativity. The book starts by …

We calculate puncture initial data corresponding to both single and binary black hole
solutions of the constraint equations by means of a pseudospectral method applied in a …

We have simulated the magnetohydrodynamic evolution of a circumbinary disk surrounding
an equal-mass binary comprising two non-spinning black holes during the period in which …

Binary black hole simulations starting from quasi-circular (ie, zero radial velocity) initial data
have orbits with small but nonzero orbital eccentricities. In this paper, the quasi-equilibrium …

There is a significant possibility that astrophysical black holes with nearly extremal spins
exist. Numerical simulations of such systems require suitable initial data. In this paper, we …

We analyze a new numerical relativity dataset of spinning but nonprecessing binary black
holes on eccentric orbits, with eccentricities from approximately 0.1 to 0.5, with …