Speaker
Description
We have recently proposed a model for a regular black hole, or
an ultra-compact object, that is premised on having maximally negative radial pressure throughout the entirety of the object’s interior.
This model can be viewed as that of a highly entropic configuration
of fundamental, closed strings near the Hagedorn temperature, but
from the perspective of an observer who is ignorant about the role of
quantum physics in counteracting against gravitational collapse.
I will show that the thermodynamic properties of frozen stars closely resemble those
of black holes: Frozen stars radiate thermally, with a temperature and
an entropy that are perturbatively close to those of black holes of the
same mass.
I will show that the total probability for a collapsing star to end in the 'frozen star' state is of order unity
