Polarization Whorls: A Signature of High-Spin Black Holes

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• Delilah Gates (Princeton)
• Friday 25 February 2022, 13:00-14:00
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There are indications that many astrophysical black holes may be be rapidly spinning. General relativity predicts that a high-spin black hole has an emergent conformal symmetry near its event horizon. Using this symmetry, we analytically predict the polarized near-horizon emissions for high-spin black holes and find a distinctive pattern of whorls aligned with the spin.

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