Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2008-07-28
Lect.Notes Phys.769:89-123,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
35 pages, Springer macros; for the Proceedings of the 4th Aegean Summer School on Black Holes
Scientific paper
10.1007/978-3-540-88460-6_3
We have known for more than thirty years that black holes behave as thermodynamic systems, radiating as black bodies with characteristic temperatures and entropies. This behavior is not only interesting in its own right; it could also, through a statistical mechanical description, cast light on some of the deep problems of quantizing gravity. In these lectures, I review what we currently know about black hole thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, suggest a rather speculative "universal" characterization of the underlying states, and describe some key open questions.
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