{"id":2368,"date":"2025-10-20T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:00:09","slug":"prof-jan-plefka-and-his-team-on-the-cover-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/2025\/10\/prof-jan-plefka-and-his-team-on-the-cover-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Jan Plefka and his team on the Cover of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"518\">Congratulations to Prof. Plefka and his team on this outstanding achievement!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2369 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8063-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8063-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8063.png 440w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 226px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 226\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2369 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8063-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8063-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8063.png 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"518\">We are proud to announce that the journal <em data-start=\"366\" data-end=\"374\">Nature<\/em> features the publication <strong>Emergence of Calabi\u2013Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hol<\/strong><strong>e scattering<\/strong>\u00a0by Prof. Jan Plefka and his team and highlights their work on the cover.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"865\">Our colleagues present precise analytical predictions for how black holes or neutron stars behave when they scatter off each other, including calculations of the scattering angle, radiated energy, and recoil. Such events are a key source of gravitational waves, whose detailed modeling is vital for next-generation observatories.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"867\" data-end=\"1240\">To tackle this, the researchers adapted advanced techniques from particle physics and solved the problem to fifth order in Newton\u2019s constant <span class=\"katex\"><span class=\"katex-mathml\">G<\/span><\/span>. A striking outcome: the appearance of Calabi\u2013Yau manifolds, complex geometric structures known from string theory, in the expressions for radiated energy, pointing to deep connections between gravity and geometry.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"867\" data-end=\"1240\">Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08984-2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1669\">Image by Mathias Driesse (Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Prof. Plefka and his team on this outstanding achievement! We are proud to announce that the journal Nature features the publication Emergence of Calabi\u2013Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hole scattering\u00a0by Prof. Jan Plefka and his team and highlights their work on the cover. Our colleagues present precise analytical predictions for how black holes or &#8230; <a title=\"Prof. Jan Plefka and his team on the Cover of Nature\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/2025\/10\/prof-jan-plefka-and-his-team-on-the-cover-of-nature\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prof. Jan Plefka and his team on the Cover of Nature<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/rtg2575\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}