No observational proof of the black-hole event-horizon

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20021645MaRDI QIDQ4707289zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Włodek Kluźniak, J. P. Lasota, Marek A. Abramowicz

Publication date 19 June 2003

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207270

zbMATH Keywords

black-holeelectromagnetic signatureevent-horizongeneral relativitySchwarzschild black holes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: Recently, several ways of obtaining observational proof of the existence of black-hole horizons have been proposed. We argue here that such proof is fundamentally impossible: observations can provide arguments, sometimes very strong ones, in favour of the existence of the event horizon, but they cannot prove it. This applies also to future observations, which will trace very accurately the details of the spacetime metric of a body suspected of being a black hole.

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