2–3 Feb 2026
Facultat de Física
Europe/Madrid timezone

Chronicles of regular black holes: the higher-curvature saga

3 Feb 2026, 14:30
25m
Aula Magna Enric Casassas (Facultat de Física)

Aula Magna Enric Casassas

Facultat de Física

Martí i Franqués, 1 08028 Barcelona

Speaker

Ángel Jesús Murcia Gil (ICCUB)

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As shown by Hawking and Penrose, black holes in general relativity are doomed to contain a singularity in their interior, where even the notion of space-time breaks down. This is no longer the case for regular black holes, for which no singularities appear. In this talk, I will explain how regular black holes arise naturally as exact solutions of theories of gravity including an infinite tower of higher-curvature corrections. I will also discuss how these regular black holes are formed through dynamical collapse of matter.

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