Quantum Black Holes
A public lecture on an encounter between Hawking and Ramanujan (part of the Nag memorial lecture series)
#Black Holes are an astonishing prediction of Einstein's General Relativity with bizarre causal and quantum properties.
Hawking discovered that a Quantum Black Hole is not really black but is slowly emitting radiation. Understanding the implications of Hawking radiation has proved to be a very valuable guide in our search to unify General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics to learn about the quantum structure of spacetime.
Explorations of quantum black holes in string theory have led to unexpected connections with the beautiful mathematical structures created by Ramanujan from a century ago.
In this lecture I will describe the fascinating history, physics, and mathematics of quantum black holes.
Prof Atish Dabholkar, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
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