Speaker
Professor Jerome Gauntlett, Chair in Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics
Summary
They are predictions of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, our best theory of gravity, and they have recently been directly observed using gravitational waves. By incorporating quantum theory we know that black holes have entropy, a concept that was first introduced to understand the properties of heat.
This remarkable fact is considered to be a key clue for elucidating the fundamental laws of physics, which may well involve string theory