Black funnels and droplets from the AdS C-metrics

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We recently argued that the dynamics of strongly coupled field theories in black hole backgrounds is related via the AdS/CFT correspondence to two new classes of AdS black hole solutions: black funnels, and black droplets suspended above a second disconnected horizon.

• The funnel solutions are dual to black holes coupling strongly to a field theory plasma.
• In contrast, the droplet solutions describe black holes coupling only weakly.
• We continue our investigation of these solutions and construct a wide variety of examples from the AdS C-metric in four bulk spacetime dimensions.