Testing black hole candidates with electromagnetic radiation
Cosimo BambiCenter for Field Theory and Particle Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai, China and Theoretical Astrophysics, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
2017en
ABI
Abstract
Can one determine the black hole nature of an observed object by electromagnetic observations? As astrophysical black holes are expected to result from collapse with nonzero angular momentum, the spacetime geometry would correspond to the Kerr metric. This review discusses how electromagnetic radiation emitted by gas or stars orbiting these objects can potentially be utilized to test the Kerr black hole hypothesis with current and future observational facilities.
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