scholarly journals Using a Black Hole to Weigh Light: Can the Event Horizon Telescope Yield New Information about the Photon Rest Mass?

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Robert P. Cameron

This paper considers general scalar perturbations of a Reissner-Nordstrdöm black hole and examines the qualitative behaviour of these perturbations in the region between and on the inner and outer horizons ( r - ≼ r ≼ r + ). Initial data are specified in terms of the ingoing radiation crossing the outer (event) horizon. The only essential restriction on these data is that the radiation should not die away too slowly on this horizon. The resultant perturbations are shown to be bounded and continuous. It is also shown that if ũ is any retarded null coordinate such that ũ = 0 on the event horizon, then the perturbations tend to zero along lines of constant radius as ũ ↓ 0. In particular, all these properties hold for pertur­bations on the inner horizon. For certain types of scalar field (including the zero rest mass scalar field) perturbations vanish at the crossover point on the inner horizon.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Rodriguez-Gomez ◽  
J.G. Russo

Abstract We compute thermal 2-point correlation functions in the black brane AdS5 background dual to 4d CFT’s at finite temperature for operators of large scaling dimension. We find a formula that matches the expected structure of the OPE. It exhibits an exponentiation property, whose origin we explain. We also compute the first correction to the two-point function due to graviton emission, which encodes the proper time from the event horizon to the black hole singularity.


2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 2755-2760
Author(s):  
CHRIS DONE

Accretion onto a black hole transforms the darkest objects in the universe to the brightest. The high energy radiation emitted from the accretion flow before it disappears forever below the event horizon lights up the regions of strong spacetime curvature close to the black hole, enabling strong field tests of General Relativity. I review the observational constraints on strong gravity from such accretion flows, and show how the data strongly support the existence of such fundamental General Relativistic features of a last stable orbit and the event horizon. However, these successes also imply that gravity does not differ significantly from Einstein's predictions above the event horizon, so any new theory of quantum gravity will be very difficult to test.


2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Modesto

We calculate modifications to the Schwarzschild solution by using a semiclassical analysis of loop quantum black hole. We obtain a metric inside the event horizon that coincides with the Schwarzschild solution near the horizon but that is substantially different at the Planck scale. In particular, we obtain a bounce of theS2sphere for a minimum value of the radius and that it is possible to have another event horizon close to ther=0point.


2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (08n10) ◽  
pp. 1379-1384 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. CULETU

A direct relation between the time-dependent Milne geometry and the Rindler spacetime is shown. Milne's metric corresponds to the region beyond Rindler's event horizon (in the wedge t ≻ |x|). We point out that inside a Schwarzschild black hole and near its horizon, the metric may be Milne's flat metric. It was found that the shear tensor associated to a congruence of fluid particles of the RHIC expanding fireball has the same structure as that corresponding to the anisotropic fluid from the black hole interior, even though the latter geometry is curved.


1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 688-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel A. Sharp

The use of isometric embeddings of curved geometries reveals their intrinsic structure in a way that is readily appreciated. This is done for 3 two-surfaces sliced from the Kerr metric which describes a rotating black hole: the equatorial plane, the event horizon, and the ergosurface.


2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (S238) ◽  
pp. 367-368
Author(s):  
Keigo Fukumura ◽  
Masaaki Takahashi ◽  
Sachiko Tsuruta

AbstractWe study magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) standing shocks in ingoing plasmas in a black hole (BH) magnetosphere. We find that low or mid latitude (non-equatorial) standing MHD shocks are both physically possible, creating very hot and/or magnetized plasma regions close to the event horizon. We also investigate the effects of the poloidal magnetic field and the BH spin on the properties of shocks and show that both effects can quantitatively affect the MHD shock solutions. MHD shock formation can be a plausible mechanism for creating high energy radiation region above an accretion disk in AGNs.


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