Gallery of work done in collaboration with the Parma Numerical Relativity Group

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BNS remnant

Remnant of a binary neutron star system: after merger the mass of the remaining star is too high and it collapses to a black hole, leaving a fast-rotating low-density disk around the black hole.

Credit: Scientific evolution and visualization by Frank Löffler, background image by Todd Vance. License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic