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The introduction of thermodynamics into gravitational physics began 5 decades ago with the discovery that black holes behave like thermodynamic systems once semiclassical quantum effects are taken into account. Notions of temperature,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Robert B. Mann

The conformal thermodynamics of rotating charged black holes in general relativity and string theory is proposed by considering the first laws of thermodynamics for a pair of systems made up of the two horizons of a Kerr-Newman or Kerr-Sen…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuang-Qing Wu

The modified first laws of thermodynamics at the black hole horizon and the cosmological horizon of the Schwarzschild de Sitter black hole and the apparent horizon of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology are derived by the surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-15 Deyou Chen , Xiaoxiong Zeng

I report on recent progress in the exciting field of Numerical Relativity, with special attention to black hole horizons.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joan Masso

An inexhaustive review of Hawking radiation and black hole thermodynamics is given, focusing especially upon some of the historical aspects as seen from the biased viewpoint of a minor player in the field on and off for the past thirty…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Don N. Page

Considering a nonlinear charged black hole as a thermodynamics system, we study the geometric description of its phase transitions. Using the formalism of geometrothermodynamics we show that the geometry of the space of thermodynamic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-28 Gustavo Arciniega , Alberto Sánchez

While the quasi-local thermodynamics of spherically symmetric black holes is well described by pressure and volume, extending this framework to rotating spacetimes poses a significant challenge. Rotation induces an oblate deformation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Thiago Campos

In this paper we propose a straightforward method for understanding the thermodynamics of black holes in de Sitter space, one that will allow us to study these black holes in a way that is analogous to the anti-de Sitter case. As per usual,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-07 David Kubiznak , Fil Simovic

We present a formalism for studying the thermodynamics of black holes in dilaton gravity. The thermodynamic variables are defined on a quasilocal surface surrounding the black hole system and are obtained from a general class of Lagrangians…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. D. E. Creighton , R. B. Mann

We show that in presence of a cosmological constant or, more generally, of a scalar potential, there can exist actually more possibilities for the horizon geometry of a four-dimensional black hole than the hitherto known spherical,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Dietmar Klemm

For black holes with more than one horizon, the existence of a global temperature is not fully understood. This can affect the thermodynamics of these black holes to be unclear. In this paper, using the method of quantum tunneling, we find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-21 Sanam Azarnia , S. Sedigheh Hashemi

Black hole thermodynamics is a crucial and foundational aspect of black hole physics, yet its observational verification remains exceptionally challenging. The photon sphere of a black hole, a manifestation of strong gravitational effects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Si-Jiang Yang , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

The statistical mechanical calculation of the thermodynamical properties of non-rotating isolated horizons are studied in the loop quantum gravity framework. By employing the Hawking temperature and horizon mass of isolated horizons as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 Shupeng Song , Gaoping Long , Cong Zhang , Xiangdong Zhang

In classical thermodynamics, irreversible processes are accomplished with an increase of entropy and a release of heat into the environment. In the case of black hole thermodynamics, instead, the increase of entropy is related with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-08 Arturo J. Gomez , Carlos Paiva

We give a review of classical, thermodynamic and quantum properties of black holes relevant to fundamental physics.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 José P. S. Lemos

We are entering a new era to test the strong gravity regime around astrophysical black holes. The possibility that they are actually horizonless ultracompact objects and then free from the information loss paradox can be examined more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Jing Ren

We revisit the classical thermodynamic stability of the standard black hole solutions by implementing the intrinsic necessary and sufficient conditions for stable global and local thermodynamic equilibrium. The criteria for such equilibria…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 V. Avramov , H. Dimov , M. Radomirov , R. C. Rashkov , T. Vetsov

In this note we consider a stringy description of black hole horizon. We start with a nonlinear sigma model defined on a two dimensional Euclidean surface with background Rindler metric. By solving the field equations, we show that to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Ichiro Oda

As in thermodynamics, the celebrated first law of black hole mechanics relates infinitesimal changes in the properties of nearby equilibrium states of black holes (without reference to any physical process that causes the transition). Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Abhay Ashtekar , Daniel E. Paraizo , Jonathan Shu

In this paper we investigate the thermodynamics of the inner horizon and its implication on the holographic description of the black hole. We focus on the black holes with two physical horizons. Under reasonable assumption, we prove that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Bin Chen , Shen-xiu Liu , Jia-ju Zhang