The quantum gravitational black hole is neither black nor white

Details The quantum gravitational black hole is neither black nor white The quantum gravitational black hole is neither black nor white

2004-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0405087v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys. D13 (2004) 2369-2373

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

6 pages. This essay received the fourth award in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition, 2004

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0218271804006504

Understanding the end state of black hole evaporation, the microscopic origin of black hole entropy, the information loss paradox, and the nature of the singularity arising in gravitational collapse - these are outstanding challenges for any candidate quantum theory of gravity. Recently, a midisuperspace model of quantum gravitational collapse has been solved using a lattice regularization scheme. It is shown that the mass of an eternal black hole follows the Bekenstein spectrum, and a related argument provides a fairly accurate estimate of the entropy. The solution also describes a quantized mass-energy distribution around a central black hole, which in the WKB approximation, is precisely Hawking radiation. The leading quantum gravitational correction makes the spectrum non-thermal, thus providing a plausible resolution of the information loss problem.

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