2013

Black hole bombs and explosions: from astrophysics to particle physics

Cardoso, Vitor

Understand

Black holes are the elementary particles of gravity, the final state of sufficiently massive stars and of energetic collisions.

  • With a forty-year long history, black hole physics is a fully-blossomed field which promises to embrace several branches of theoretical physics.
  • Here I review the main developments in highly dynamical black holes with an emphasis on high energy black hole collisions and probes of particle physics via superradiance.
  • This write-up, rather than being a collection of well known results, is intended to highlight open issues and the most intriguing results.

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