Density profiles of two merging neutron stars in the orbital plane.
Each star has 1.35 solar masses. Both stars have a small spin pointing along the orbital angular momentum.
It shows the geometry pinching, integrating through the singularity using manifold surgery, and eventually evolving to a direct product of two of Thurston’s prime geometries.
Two orbiting black holes distort spacetime around them. The picture shows the lapse function in the orbital plane.
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