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Spacetime Singularities and Black Holes

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  • UserProfessor Gary Horowitz - University of California, Santa Barbara
  • ClockWednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00
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After a brief introduction to Einstein’s theory of general relativity and its most profound prediction of black holes, I will focus on spacetime singularities, i.e., regions where general relativity breaks down and must be replaced by a quantum theory of gravity.  I first discuss singularities inside black holes. This is the usual case and is an old story, but there have been some recent developments. I will next describe some new results which show that some black holes have singularities on their surface. Finally, I will discuss the possibility of singularities outside black holes.

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