<ul><li>Researchers in Germany have developed an approach using mathematical techniques from particle physics to enhance understanding of gravitational waves from black hole collisions.</li><li>The team's work aims to improve predictions of gravitational wave properties during black hole mergers for future gravitational-wave detectors like the LISA space mission.</li><li>By creating a framework called worldline quantum field theory (WQFT), the researchers achieved the most accurate solution to the Einstein field equations to date, revealing new mathematical functions.</li><li>The findings could lead to more precise gravitational-wave models and have broader applications in physics, suggesting a new class of mathematical functions potentially useful in various fields beyond gravitational waves.</li></ul>

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