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HET Seminar | Title: Quantum Gravity in Near-Extremal Black Holes

Roberto Emparan (Barcelona)
Friday, November 14, 2025
3:00-4:00 PM
340 West Hall Map
Recent developments have revealed that black holes near extremality exhibit large quantum fluctuations in their geometry, marking a controllable breakdown of semiclassical quantum field theory in curved spacetime. In this talk, I will discuss how these fluctuations can be revealed through scattering waves off the black hole. In particular, we find that extremely cold black holes become transparent to low-frequency light or gravitational radiation. These effects provide concrete signatures of quantum gravity at play in near-extremal regimes.
Building: West Hall
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: High Energy Theory Seminar, Lecture, Physics, Science
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