Are black holes natural?

by Julio Parra-Martinez (IHES)

Wednesday 11 Feb 2026, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

In this talk I will explain how certain aspects of black-hole physics can be understood using ideas from effective field theory. Many of the familiar notions from particle physics will play a role, including the renormalization group, universality and naturalness. In particular, I will explain why black holes naively seem like fine-tuned systems, but they are ultimately not thanks to a accidental symmetry of General Relativity.