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Unveiling the electrodynamic nature of spacetime collisions

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arxiv 2504.15978 v2 pith:ZLHWB3F7 submitted 2025-04-22 gr-qc astro-ph.HEhep-thphysics.plasm-ph

Unveiling the electrodynamic nature of spacetime collisions

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Gravitational waves from merging binary black holes present exciting opportunities for understanding fundamental aspects of gravity, including nonlinearities in the strong-field regime. One challenge in studying and interpreting the dynamics of binary black hole collisions is the intrinsically geometrical nature of spacetime, which in many ways is unlike that of other classical field theories. By exactly recasting Einstein's equations into a set of coupled nonlinear Maxwell equations closely resembling classical electrodynamics, we visualize the intricate dynamics of gravitational electric and magnetic fields during inspiral, merger and ring-down of a binary black hole collision.

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