FAU^2 Focus Workshop on quantum black holes and the relation to asymptotic infinity

Understanding shock waves in gravitational collapse

27 Jun 2024, 17:10

40m

ECAP Laboratory Building

Session 6

Speaker

Viqar Husain (Zoom) (University of New Brunswick)

Description

Recent work on the gravitational collapse of dust with quantum gravity corrections provides evidence that black holes end in a shock wave. I will
provide analytical evidence and describe the numerical procedure that leads to this conclusion.

Presentation materials

Burgers.mov

LTB_ClassicalMovie.mov

Understanding_Shock_Waves3.pdf