Observational implications of fuzzball formation

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02720-ZMaRDI QIDQ2226046zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Hertog, J. B. Hartle

Publication date 11 February 2021

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02123

zbMATH Keywords

fuzzballsgravitational collapsegravitational wave burstquantum cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational waves (83C35) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) General questions in astronomy and astrophysics (85A04)

Abstract: We consider the quantum dynamics of gravitational collapse in a model in which the wave function spreads out over a large ensemble of geometries as envisioned in the fuzzball proposal. We show that the probabilities of coarse-grained observables are highly peaked around the classical black hole values. By contrast, probabilities for finer-grained observables probing the neighbourhood of collapsed objects are more broadly distributed and no notion of `averaging' applies to them. This implies that the formation of fuzzballs gives rise to distinct observational signatures that are more significant than has hitherto been thought and may be tested against observations in the near future. We also predict a novel kind of gravitational wave burst associated with the spreading of the wave function in gravitational collapse.

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