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The puzzles of black hole evaporation can be studied in the simplified context of 1+1 dimensional gravity. The semi-classical equations of Callan, Giddings, Harvey and Strominger provide a consistent description of the evaporation process…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Susskind , L. Thorlacius

Black holes emit thermal radiation (Hawking effect). If after black-hole evaporation nothing else were left, an arbitrary initial state would evolve into a thermal state (`information-loss problem'). Here it is argued that the whole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Claus Kiefer

Black holes are some of the most interesting objects in the universe. While they first arise in the complicated behavior of general relativity, the physical laws ruling their behavior are surprisingly simple. For example, one of the core…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-20 Caio César Rodrigues Evangelista , Níckolas de Aguiar Alves

We analyze in this work some analogies between thermal emission of nano objects and Hawking's radiation. We first focus on the famous expression of the black hole radiating temperature derived by Hawking in 1974 and consider the case of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-08-27 Karl Joulain

I give a fairly systematic and thorough presentation of the case for regarding black holes as thermodynamic systems in the fullest sense, aimed at students and non-specialists and not presuming advanced knowledge of quantum gravity. I pay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-18 David Wallace

Black holes are extreme spacetime deformations where even light is imprisoned. There is an extensive astrophysical evidence for the real and abundant existence of these prisons of matter and light in the Universe. Mathematically, black…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , José P. S. Lemos

We summarize, simplify and extend recent work showing that small deviations from exact thermality in Hawking radiation, first uncovered by Kraus and Wilczek, have the capacity to carry off the maximum information content of a black hole.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Werner Israel , Zinkoo Yun

Microscopic black holes explode with their temperature varying inversely as their mass. Such explosions would lead to the highest temperatures in the present universe, all the way to the Planck energy. The possibility that a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph I Kapusta

This is my contribution to the proceedings of Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday celebration. If the ideas of TeV scale gravity are correct, then black holes should be produced at accelerators that probe the TeV scale, and their decays should…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven B. Giddings

Hawking radiation is an important quantum phenomenon of black hole, which is closely related to the existence of event horizon of black hole. The cosmological event horizon of de Sitter space is also of the Hawking radiation with thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 Rong-Gen Cai , Li-Ming Cao , Ya-Peng Hu

This study investigates the evaporation process of a Schwarzschild black hole, incorporating quantum corrections arising from conformal anomaly and vacuum polarization. We demonstrate that these corrections significantly alter the Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Moslem Shafiee , Ahmad Sheykhi

In this article, we explore an alternative derivation of Hawking radiation. Instead of the field-theoretic derivation, we have suggested a simpler calculation based on quantum mechanical reflection from a one-dimensional potential. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-14 Pritam Nanda , Chiranjeeb Singha , Pabitra Tripathy , Amit Ghosh

Following the initial work of Calcagni et al. on the black holes in multi-fractional theories, we focus on the Schwarzschild black hole in multi-fractional theory with q-derivatives. After presenting its Hawking and Hayward temperatures in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-10 Peng Huang , Fang-Fang Yuan

Arguably, black hole is perhaps the most popular scientific term among the lay person. Perhaps it is the phrasing of the term 'black hole' which appeals to the popular imagination, offering some exotic visual of a cosmic object to the…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-06-08 Manojendu Choudhury

In this letter we study the process of Hawking radiation of a black hole assuming the existence of a limiting physical curvature scale. The particular model is constructed using the Limiting Curvature Hypothesis (LCH) and in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Damien A. Easson

It has recently become fashionable to regard black holes as elementary particles. By taking this suggestion seriously it is possible to cobble together an elementary particle physics based estimate for the decay rate $(\hbox{black hole})_i…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Matt Visser

In this paper, we apply the topological method to the various black holes to derive their Hawking temperature. We show that the this method can easily be employed to compute the Hawking temperature of black holes having spherically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-17 A. Övgün , İ. Sakallı

In an insightful approach, Robinson and Wilczek proposed that Hawking radiation can be obtained as the compensation of a breakdown of general covariance and gauge invariance and the radiation is a black body radiation at Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Soonkeon Nam , Jong-Dae Park

Since the original derivation of Hawking radiation, there have been lots of alternative approaches to show the same fact that black holes emit particles as hot bodies with a temperature. These alternative methods generally rely on different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Chon Man Sou

A microscopic description of Hawking radiation in sonic black holes has been recently presented (Giovanazzi S 2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 061302). This exactly solvable model is formulated in terms of one-dimensional scattering of a Fermi gas.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Giovanazzi