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2nd NICE COLLOQUIUM ON ANALOGUE GRAVITY
Submitted by supersilke on Sun, 2010-06-13 16:42
University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
17-18 JUNE 2010
Stephen W. Hawking argued in the 1970s that black holes are not truly black; they emit a quantum glow of thermal radiation. But his analysis had a problem. According to relativity theory, waves starting at a black hole horizon will be stretched by an infinite amount as they propagate away. Therefore, Hawking’s radiation must emerge from an infinitely small region of space, where the unknown effects of quantum gravity take over. Physicists have grappled with this problem by studying black hole analogues in fluid systems.
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