Fate of quantum black holes

Evaporation and fate of dilatonic black holes.

We study both spherically symmetric and rotating black holes with dilaton coupling, and discuss the evaporation of these black holes via Hawking’s quantum radiation and their fates. We find that the dilaton coupling constant α drastically affects the emission rates, and therefore the fates of the black holes. When the charge is conserved, the emission rate from the non-rotating hole is drastica...

Quantum Aspects of Black Holes

In this thesis we study two quantum aspects of black holes, their entropy and the Hawking effect. First, we present a model for the statistical interpretation of black hole entropy and show that this entropy emerges as a result of missing information about the exact state of the matter from which the black hole was formed. We demonstrate that this idea can be applied to black holes made from bo...

Quantum aspects of black holes

Quantum States of Black Holes

I review the recent progress in providing a statistical foundation for black hole thermodynamics. In the context of string theory, one can now identify and count quantum states associated with black holes. One can also compute the analog of Hawking radiation (in a certain low energy regime) in a manifestly unitary way. Both extremal and nonextremal black holes are considered, including the Schw...

Quantum Aspects of Black Holes

This review is based on lectures given at the 1992 Trieste Spring School on String Theory and Quantum Gravity and at the 1992 TASI Summer School in Boulder, Colorado. 9/92 † Email address: [email protected] ∗ Email addresses: [email protected], [email protected].