Schwarzschild geodesics for exploring “Zoom-Whirl” Orbits and their gravitational waves
Interactive
Gallery
Masses in the Stellar Graveyard
Interactive
Masses in the Stellar Graveyard
Supported Browsers: Windows: Google Chrome Mac: Google Chrome or Safari
Visualization: LIGO -Virgo / Frank Elavsky, Aaron Geller / Northwestern
- Education,
- Science
Final Flight of a Neutron Star Pair
Interactive
Final Flight of a Neutron Star Pair
This interactive allows you to investigate possible past lives of the two neutron stars that merged in an event called GW170817 in the galaxy NGC 4993. The pair of stars—a neutron star and a normal star—orbit quietly, until the normal star undergoes a supernova, spawning a second neutron star and “kicking” the system into an elliptical orbit.
LIGO-Virgo / Aaron Geller / Northwestern
- Education,
- Science
Firefly Visualization Platform
Image / Interactive
Firefly Visualization Platform
A screenshot from Firefly, an interactive, web-based, and publicly available particle visualization platform created by Aaron Geller and Alex Gurvich. Shown here is a snapshot in time from a simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy with the stars in blue, the gas in red, and the dark matter in yellow. In the real universe the gas
Aaron Geller / Alex Gurvich / Northwestern