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The advent of gravitational waves and black hole imaging has opened a new window into probing the horizon scale of black holes. An important question is whether string theory results for black holes can predict interesting and observable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-07 Daniel R. Mayerson

We study the thermodynamics of black holes in the framework of non-commutative geometry, where spacetime fuzziness is modelled by smeared Lorentzian distributions. Corrected black hole solutions with this quantum fuzziness are obtained, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Ankit Anand , Anshul Mishra , Aditya Singh

The black hole information paradox has caused enormous confusion over four decades. But in recent years, the theorem of quantum strong-subaddditivity has sorted out the possible resolutions into three sharp categories: (A) No new physics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Samir D. Mathur

We study the physical properties of four-dimensional, string-theoretical, horizonless "fuzzball" geometries by imaging their shadows. Their microstructure traps light rays straying near the would-be horizon on long-lived, highly redshifted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-22 Fabio Bacchini , Daniel R. Mayerson , Bart Ripperda , Jordy Davelaar , Héctor Olivares , Thomas Hertog , Bert Vercnocke

In recent years we have come to understand how the information paradox is resolved in string theory. The huge entropy $S_{bek}={A\over 4G}$ of black holes is realized by an explicit set of horizon sized `fuzzball' wavefunctions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Samir D. Mathur

The thermal balance between the black hole and surrounding thermal radiation is an interesting topic. The primordial black hole is a type of black hole formed in the early universe, especially during the thermal radiation period of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-02 Ruifeng Zheng

Deep conceptual problems associated with classical black holes can be addressed in string theory by the ``fuzzball'' paradigm, which provides a microscopic description of a black hole in terms of a thermodynamically large number of regular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Taishi Ikeda , Massimo Bianchi , Dario Consoli , Alfredo Grillo , Josè Francisco Morales , Paolo Pani , Guilherme Raposo

We describe the puzzles that arise in the quantum theory of black holes, and explain how they are resolved in string theory. We review how the Bekenstein entropy is obtained through the count of brane bound states. We describe the fuzzball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-17 Samir D. Mathur , Madhur Mehta

The idea of holography in gravity arose from the fact that the entropy of black holes is given by their surface area. The holography encountered in gauge/gravity duality has no such relation however; the boundary surface can be placed at an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Samir D. Mathur

The traditional black hole has a horizon, with a singularity inside the horizon. But actual microstates of black holes are `fuzzballs', with no horizon and a complex internal structure. We take the simplest hole in string theory -- the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Stefano Giusto , Samir D. Mathur

The modeling of black holes is an important desideratum for any quantum theory of gravity. Not only is a classical black hole metric sought, but also agreement with the laws of black hole thermodynamics. In this paper, we describe how these…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Nick Huggett , Keizo Matsubara

The thermodynamical properties of toroidal black holes in the grand canonical ensemble are investigated using York's formalism. The black hole is enclosed in a cavity with finite radius where the temperature and electrostatic potential are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Claudia S. Peça , José P. S. Lemos

The black hole information paradox has been with us for some time. We outline the nature of the paradox. We then propose a resolution based on an examination of the properties of quantum gravity under circumstances that give rise to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Malcolm J. Perry

We review the remarkable relationship between the laws of black hole mechanics and the ordinary laws of thermodynamics. It is emphasized that - in analogy with the laws of thermodynamics - the validity the laws of black hole mechanics does…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert M. Wald

We study the dynamical and thermodynamic evolution of a Schwarzschild black hole in Modified Gravity (MOG) under a scalar gravitational wave breathing mode. The time-dependent apparent horizon reveals that both the scalar strain velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Emmanuel T. Rodulfo

A lot of confusion surrounds the issue of black hole complementarity, because the question has been considered without discussing the mechanism which guarantees unitarity. Considering such a mechanism leads to the following: (1) The Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-29 Samir D. Mathur , David Turton

In Ho\v{r}ava and Einstein-{\AE}ther theories of modified gravity, in spite of the violation of Lorentz invariance, spherically-symmetric stationary black hole solutions possess an inner universal horizon which separates field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-10 Florent Michel , Renaud Parentani

The black hole information paradox is a contradiction between fundamental principles which has puzzled physicists for over forty years. The crux of the problem lies in an assumption about the structure of entanglement across the event…

Popular Physics · Physics 2019-01-07 Ro Jefferson

Under broad assumptions breaking of Lorentz invariance in gravitational theories leads to tension with unitarity because it allows for processes that apparently violate the second law of thermodynamics. The crucial ingredient of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Blas , S. Sibiryakov

We propose here that the well-known black hole paradoxes such as the information loss and teleological nature of the event horizon are restricted to a particular idealized case, which is the homogeneous dust collapse model. In this case,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-25 Pankaj S. Joshi , Ramesh Narayan