Black hole is an important prediction and research object of general relativity. A classical black hole is a special region of space-time from which any object, including photons, cannot escape due to the curvature of space-time. Black hole is not only an object for theoretical study, but also supported by more and more astronomical observations, especially the successful detection of gravitational waves and photographs of black holes in recent years, which provide strong evidences for the existence of black holes. Hawking used quantum field theory in curved spacetime to prove the existence of thermal radiation from black holes, which laid the foundation for black hole thermodynamics and provided ideas for the quantization of gravity. Our research interests in recent years include: cosmic censorship hypothesis, black hole thermodynamics, calculation of black hole shadow, BSW mechanism, etc.

Representative Works of the Center.

[1] Jie Jiang and Sijie Gao, "Universality of BSW mechanism for spinning particles", Eur.Phys. J. C 79:378 (2019).

[2] Yuan Zhang and Sijie Gao, "First law and Smarr formula of black hole mechanics in nonlinear gauge theories", Class. Quantum Grav. 35, 145007 (2018).

[3] Sijie Gao, Yuan Zhang, "Destroying extremal Kerr-Newman blackholes with test particles", Phys. Rev. D 87, 044028 (2013) .

[4] Shupeng Song, Haida Li, Yongge Ma, Cong Zhang, “Entropy of black holes with arbitrary shapes in loop quantum gravity”, SCIENCE CHINA: Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 64: 120411 (2021).