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ERC Starting Grant · 2022

The Celestial Road to a Holographic Description of Black Holes

Black holes are at the root of the most striking puzzles that arise when attempting to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity; they are therefore thought to be key to a formulation of a theory of quantum gravity. In recent years, progress in our understanding of the elusive quantum nature of black holes has been made thanks to the so-called holographic correspondence, which has provided theoretical physicists with a powerful tool to study quantum gravity. However, these methods are so far only fully developed for anti-de Sitter spacetimes, whereas understanding realistic black holes would require to develop a holographic correspondence for asymptotically flat spacetimes. The aim…

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