Black holes
31 entries in the Black Holes compendium.
Outline of black holesA region of spacetime where gravity prevents anything from escaping.Binary black holeTwo black holes in close orbit, confirmed by gravitational waves.Extremal black holeHypothetical black hole with minimum mass and zero temperature.Intermediate-mass black holeBlack holes between stellar and supermassive in mass.Micro black holeHypothetical tiny black holes where quantum effects dominate.Accretion diskAccretion disks are ubiquitous structures of orbiting material around massive bodies.AdS black braneEinstein equation solution with planar event horizon and negative cosmological constant.AdS black holeBlack hole solution with negative cosmological constant, asymptotic to anti-de Sitter space.Ansky (black hole)First supermassive black hole observed awakening in real time.Astrophysical jetBipolar streams of ionised matter expelled at high velocity.Bekenstein boundUpper limit on entropy in a finite region of space.BKL singularityAn anisotropic, chaotic model of the universe near the singularity.Black braneExtended, translationally symmetric solution of Einstein field equations.Black hole bombRunaway amplification of bosonic fields around rotating black holes.Black hole complementarityConjectured solution to the black hole information paradox.Black hole cosmologyModel where our universe is inside a black hole.Black hole greybody factorsFactors altering Hawking radiation from perfect black-body spectrum.Black hole information paradoxA paradox questioning information loss in black hole evaporation.Black Hole InitiativeInterdisciplinary center at Harvard focusing on black hole study.Black hole ringdown spectroscopyMethod analyzing gravitational waves from settling black holes.Black hole stability conjectureConjecture that perturbed black holes settle back to a black hole state.Black hole thermodynamicsA model linking black holes to thermodynamics via entropy and temperature.Black star (semiclassical gravity)Theoretical alternative to black holes without an event horizon.Blandford–Znajek processMechanism for extracting energy from rotating black holes.Bousso's holographic boundFormulated the covariant entropy bound in theoretical physics.Boyer–Lindquist coordinatesCoordinates generalizing Schwarzschild metric for Kerr black holes.BTZ black holeA (2+1)-dimensional black hole with negative cosmological constant.Carter constantConserved quantity for black hole motion in general relativity.Cauchy horizonLight-like boundary of a Cauchy problem's domain.CENBOLModel of hot boundary layer in black hole accretion flows.Chandrasekhar–Page equationsEquations for spin-1/2 particles in rotating black hole spacetimes.
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