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Black Holes as Gravity Laboratories

Name: Black Holes as Gravity Laboratories
Start: 2013-02-06T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2013-02-06T12:30:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by Dr Thomas Sotiriou (SISSA)

Wednesday 6 Feb 2013, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

4/2-011 - TH common room

CERN

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Black holes are natural laboratories for the gravitational interaction and for fundamental physics in general. I will try to provide support for this claim by discussing specific examples of black holes endowed with scalar fields and black holes in Lorentz-violating theories.