The Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) is a Center of Excellence at Rochester Institute of Technology
The Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) is a Research Center of the College of Science (COS) and an Research Center of Excellence at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) dedicated to research at the frontiers of numerical relativity and relativistic astrophysics, gravitational-wave physics, its connection to experiments and observations, and high-performance computation and scientific visualization.
03/07/2026
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The merger of spinning, accreting supermassive black hole binaries The merger of spinning, accreting supermassive black hole binaries Lorenzo Ennoggi Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, Rochester Institute of Technology & School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14623, USA Manuela Campanelli Center for Computational Relativ...
02/04/2026
Just accepted in !
How do we spot merging supermassive black holes? Our new 3D GRMHD simulations reveal a "smoking gun" signal: a sharp jump in light and jet power at the moment of merger, driven by strong shocks.
A crucial step for multimessenger astronomy!
🔗 doi.org/10.1103/f74l-3…
11/27/2025
The slides and recordings of the various talks and panels from the Balzan Workshop In Pursuit of Gravitational Waves: Solving the Two-Body Problem in General Relativity are now available online.
You can find the relevant links directly in the program on the workshop webpage:
Program – In Pursuit of Gravitational Waves Program Day 1 (Monday) 09:20 – 12:00 Morning session 09:20WelcomeSpeaker: Alessandra Buonanno and Jean-Philippe Martinez (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)SlidesRecording 10m 09:30Insights from The History of LIGOSpeaker: Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology)Slides...
09/16/2025
I am excited to share our new paper, "The merger of spinning, accreting supermassive black hole binaries"! We found that when these black holes collide, their "light show" actually dims right before the merger, then suddenly gets much brighter. This unique signature could help us find black hole mergers in the future, even without gravitational wave signals.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10319