Asia Pacific Physics Week 2023 (APPW2023)

Monday, Nov. 6, 2023

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM  C. N. Yang Award Talk  Li Li (Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS) 

Diving into a hairy black hole

Li Li

Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape from it. As an important prediction of general relativity, the existence of black holes has been confirmed by experiments and observations. While the exterior physics of black holes has been extensively investigated in the literature, the internal structure of black holes inside the event horizon has not been well understood. I will introduce our recent progress toward understanding the interior of black holes, including the no Cauchy-horizon theorem, the interior dynamics of a hairy black hole, and the constraint on the number of horizons with energy conditions.