Sixteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting

Black hole mimickers and the limits of GR

5 Jul 2021, 16:50

20m

Invited talk in the parallel session Theories of gravity: alternatives to the cosmological and particle standard models Theories of Gravity: Alternatives to the Cosmological and Particle Standard Models

Speaker

Daniele Malafarina (Nazarbayev University)

Description

We consider a class of exact solutions of Einstein's equations that describe a black hole mimicker for which the relativistic description would fail close to the horizon scale. We investigate how such an hypothetical object may be distinguished from a black hole via observations.