Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

My research seeks to explain the origin of physics of black holes through the search for a new theory called quantum gravity. Black holes are gravitating objects in the universe that absorb everything including light, and appear completely `black' in astrophysical observations. Black holes are detected by the accreting matter that falls into them by observing the X-rays that are radiated. Previously it was thought that falling matter are eventually destroyed at a central singularity, but my recent work, 'Semi classical quantization of space-times with apparent horizons,' shows that matter is not destroyed, as the central singularity is smoothened. Thus, I propose to take my results further and obtain any significant effect of this in astrophysical observations to confirm my predictions of singularity resolution. In the same paper, I demonstrated that the boundary of the black hole, the horizon, has degrees of freedom like that of a gas, thereby solving the puzzle of why the black hole behaves as a thermodynamic system. As part of my proposed research, I will use the formalism to solve the famous information loss problem of black holes, due to Hawking radiation. I am also currently working in `Euclidean quantum gravity' and I shall use my results to find new effects in the `wave function of the universe', which describes the evolution of the universe from the point it was created, to what it will evolve into in the future.