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In classical General Relativity (GR), an observer falling into an astrophysical black hole is not expected to experience anything dramatic as she crosses the event horizon. However, tentative resolutions to problems in quantum gravity, such…
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Recently the Event Horizon Telescope observed black holes at event horizon scales for the first time, enabling us to now test the existence of event horizons. Although event horizons have by definition no observable features, one can look…
Very recently, a ``Comment'' by Wang [gr-qc/0309003] on a paper by Gon\c{c}alves [Phys. Rev. D {\bf 65}, 084045 (2002)] appeared, claiming that Gon\c{c}alves' analysis of trapped surfaces in certain kinds of cylindrical spacetimes was…
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The suspicion that gravity is holographic has been supported mainly by a variety of specific examples from string theory. In this paper, we propose that such a holography can actually be observed in the context of Einstein's gravity and at…
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