Rachel Rosen (Columbia University)

Date: Tue. November 8th, 2016, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Location: Miller room

Non-Singular Black Holes in Massive Gravity

When starting with a static, spherically-symmetric ansatz, there are currently two types of black hole solutions in massive gravity: (i) exact Schwarzschild solutions which exhibit no Yukawa suppression at large distances and (ii) solutions which contain coordinate-invariant singularities at the horizon.  In this talk, I will present new black hole solutions which have a nonsingular horizon and can potentially be matched to Yukawa asymptotics at large distances.  These solutions recover Schwarzschild black holes in the massless limit and are thus observationally viable.”