Testing the black hole ‘no-hair’ hypothesis
Vítor CardosoCENTRA, Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049 Lisboa, PortugalLeonardo GualtieriDipartimento di Fisica, ‘Sapienza’ Università di Roma & Sezione INFN Roma 1, P.A. Moro 5, I-00185, Roma, Italy
2016en
ABI
Abstract
Black holes (BHs) in general relativity (GR) are very simple objects. This property, that goes under the name of ‘no-hair’, has been refined in the last few decades and admits several versions. The simplicity of BHs makes them ideal testbeds of fundamental physics and of GR itself. Here we discuss the no-hair property of BHs, how it can be measured in the electromagnetic or gravita- tional window, and what it can possibly tell us about our Universe.
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