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14–16 May 2025
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Are black holes natural?

14 May 2025, 15:50
40m
Auditorium CSSB (bldg. 15) (DESY Hamburg)

Auditorium CSSB (bldg. 15)

DESY Hamburg

Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg

Speaker

Julio Parra-Martinez (IHES)

Description

Four-dimensional black holes are know not to deform under weak static perturbations, i.e., they have a vanishing polarizability. This constitutes a sort of classical naturalness problem. I will present a solution to this problem, which shows that this surprising fact remains true for arbitrarily large perturbations. I will end commenting on our ability to test this results in observations and questioning its quantum fate.

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