Ultra-relativistic grazing collisions of black holes
U.Sperhake, V.Cardoso, F.Pretorius, E.Berti, T.Hinderer, N.Yunes

TL;DR
This paper investigates the dynamics and gravitational wave emission in high-velocity black hole collisions, focusing on zoom-whirl behavior and the spin of the resulting black hole.
Contribution
It provides new insights into ultra-relativistic black hole collisions, including gravitational wave signatures and remnant black hole spin characteristics.
Findings
Identification of zoom-whirl behavior in high-velocity collisions
Quantitative analysis of gravitational wave emission patterns
Determination of the remnant black hole spin post-collision
Abstract
We study gravitational wave emission, zoom-whirl behavior and the resulting spin of the remnant black hole in highly boosted collisions of equal-mass, non spinning black-hole binaries with generic impact parameter.
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