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For strong gravitational fields, general relativity predicts phenomena which are entirely alien to Newtonian gravity, most notably black holes. This chapter explores their properties and formation for the simplest case, a non-spinning and uncharged Schwarzschild black hole.
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The equivalence between periodicity in imaginary time and finite temperature might seem very ad-hoc here, but it is actually a well established result and forms the basis of thermal quantum field theory. It has applications far beyond Hawking radiation and the interested reader is referred to [13].
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Hentschke, R., Hölbling, C. (2020). Black Holes. In: A Short Course in General Relativity and Cosmology. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46384-7_6
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