Abstract
The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics-dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predictions of General Relativity: event horizons, singularities and ergoregions. The hitherto invisible landscape of the gravitational Universe is being unveiled before our eyes: the historical direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration marks the dawn of a new era of scientific exploration. Gravitational-wave astronomy will allow us to test models of black hole formation, growth and evolution, as well as models of gravitational-wave generation and propagation. It will provide evidence for event horizons and ergoregions, test the theory of General Relativity itself, and may reveal the existence of new fundamental fields. The synthesis of these results has the potential to radically reshape our understanding of the cosmos and of the laws of Nature. The purpose of this work is to present a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the relevant fields of research, summarize important open problems, and lay out a roadmap for future progress. This write-up is an initiative taken within the framework of the European Action on 'Black holes, Gravitational waves and Fundamental Physics'.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 143001 |
| Journal | Classical and Quantum Gravity |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 14 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 19 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- birth and evolution of black holes
- black holes
- fundamental physics
- gravitational waves
- gravitational-wave astronomy
- source modelling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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T1 - Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics
T2 - A roadmap
AU - Barack, Leor
AU - Cardoso, Vitor
AU - Nissanke, Samaya
AU - Sotiriou, Thomas P.
AU - Askar, Abbas
AU - Belczynski, Chris
AU - Bertone, Gianfranco
AU - Bon, Edi
AU - Blas, Diego
AU - Brito, Richard
AU - Bulik, Tomasz
AU - Burrage, Clare
AU - Byrnes, Christian T.
AU - Caprini, Chiara
AU - Chernyakova, Masha
AU - Chruściel, Piotr
AU - Colpi, Monica
AU - Ferrari, Valeria
AU - Gaggero, Daniele
AU - Gair, Jonathan
AU - García-Bellido, Juan
AU - Hassan, S. F.
AU - Heisenberg, Lavinia
AU - Hendry, Martin
AU - Heng, Ik Siong
AU - Herdeiro, Carlos
AU - Hinderer, Tanja
AU - Horesh, Assaf
AU - Kavanagh, Bradley J.
AU - Kocsis, Bence
AU - Kramer, Michael
AU - Le Tiec, Alexandre
AU - Mingarelli, Chiara
AU - Nardini, Germano
AU - Nelemans, Gijs
AU - Palenzuela, Carlos
AU - Pani, Paolo
AU - Perego, Albino
AU - Porter, Edward K.
AU - Rossi, Elena M.
AU - Schmidt, Patricia
AU - Sesana, Alberto
AU - Sperhake, Ulrich
AU - Stamerra, Antonio
AU - Stein, Leo C.
AU - Tamanini, Nicola
AU - Tauris, Thomas M.
AU - Urena-López, L. Arturo
AU - Vincent, Frederic
AU - Volonteri, Marta
AU - Wardell, Barry
AU - Wex, Norbert
AU - Yagi, Kent
AU - Abdelsalhin, Tiziano
AU - Aloy, Miguel Ángel
AU - Amaro-Seoane, Pau
AU - Annulli, Lorenzo
AU - Arca-Sedda, Manuel
AU - Bah, Ibrahima
AU - Barausse, Enrico
AU - Barakovic, Elvis
AU - Benkel, Robert
AU - Bennett, Charles L.
AU - Bernard, Laura
AU - Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
AU - Berry, Christopher P.L.
AU - Berti, Emanuele
AU - Bezares, Miguel
AU - Blanco-Pillado, Jose Juan
AU - Blázquez-Salcedo, Jose Luis
AU - Bonetti, Matteo
AU - Bošković, Mateja
AU - Bosnjak, Zeljka
AU - Bricman, Katja
AU - Brügmann, Bernd
AU - Capelo, Pedro R.
AU - Carloni, Sante
AU - Cerdá-Durán, Pablo
AU - Charmousis, Christos
AU - Chaty, Sylvain
AU - Clerici, Aurora
AU - Coates, Andrew
AU - Colleoni, Marta
AU - Collodel, Lucas G.
AU - Compère, Geoffrey
AU - Cook, William
AU - Cordero-Carrión, Isabel
AU - Correia, Miguel
AU - De La Cruz-Dombriz, Álvaro
AU - Czinner, Viktor G.
AU - Destounis, Kyriakos
AU - Dialektopoulos, Kostas
AU - Doneva, Daniela
AU - Dotti, Massimo
AU - Drew, Amelia
AU - Eckner, Christopher
AU - Edholm, James
AU - Emparan, Roberto
AU - Erdem, Recai
AU - Ferreira, Miguel
AU - Ferreira, Pedro G.
AU - Finch, Andrew
AU - Font, Jose A.
AU - Franchini, Nicola
AU - Fransen, Kwinten
AU - Gal'tsov, Dmitry
AU - Ganguly, Apratim
AU - Gerosa, Davide
AU - Glampedakis, Kostas
AU - Gomboc, Andreja
AU - Goobar, Ariel
AU - Gualtieri, Leonardo
AU - Guendelman, Eduardo
AU - Haardt, Francesco
AU - Harmark, Troels
AU - Hejda, Filip
AU - Hertog, Thomas
AU - Hopper, Seth
AU - Husa, Sascha
AU - Ihanec, Nada
AU - Ikeda, Taishi
AU - Jaodand, Amruta
AU - Jetzer, Philippe
AU - Jimenez-Forteza, Xisco
AU - Kamionkowski, Marc
AU - Kaplan, David E.
AU - Kazantzidis, Stelios
AU - Kimura, Masashi
AU - Kobayashi, Shiho
AU - Kokkotas, Kostas
AU - Krolik, Julian
AU - Kunz, Jutta
AU - Lämmerzahl, Claus
AU - Lasky, Paul
AU - Lemos, José P.S.
AU - Levi Said, Jackson
AU - Liberati, Stefano
AU - Lopes, Jorge
AU - Luna, Raimon
AU - Ma, Yin Zhe
AU - Maggio, Elisa
AU - Mangiagli, Alberto
AU - Montero, Marina Martinez
AU - Maselli, Andrea
AU - Mayer, Lucio
AU - Mazumdar, Anupam
AU - Messenger, Christopher
AU - Ménard, Brice
AU - Minamitsuji, Masato
AU - Moore, Christopher J.
AU - Mota, David
AU - Nampalliwar, Sourabh
AU - Nerozzi, Andrea
AU - Nichols, David
AU - Nissimov, Emil
AU - Obergaulinger, Martin
AU - Obers, Niels A.
AU - Oliveri, Roberto
AU - Pappas, George
AU - Pasic, Vedad
AU - Peiris, Hiranya
AU - Petrushevska, Tanja
AU - Pollney, Denis
AU - Pratten, Geraint
AU - Rakic, Nemanja
AU - Racz, Istvan
AU - Radia, Miren
AU - Ramazanoǧlu, Fethi M.
AU - Ramos-Buades, Antoni
AU - Raposo, Guilherme
AU - Rogatko, Marek
AU - Rosca-Mead, Roxana
AU - Rosinska, Dorota
AU - Rosswog, Stephan
AU - Ruiz-Morales, Ester
AU - Sakellariadou, Mairi
AU - Sanchis-Gual, Nicolás
AU - Sharan Salafia, Om
AU - Samajdar, Anuradha
AU - Sintes, Alicia
AU - Smole, Majda
AU - Sopuerta, Carlos
AU - Souza-Lima, Rafael
AU - Stalevski, Marko
AU - Stergioulas, Nikolaos
AU - Stevens, Chris
AU - Tamfal, Tomas
AU - Torres-Forné, Alejandro
AU - Tsygankov, Sergey
AU - İ Ünlütürk, Kivanç
AU - Valiante, Rosa
AU - Van De Meent, Maarten
AU - Velhinho, José
AU - Verbin, Yosef
AU - Vercnocke, Bert
AU - Vernieri, Daniele
AU - Vicente, Rodrigo
AU - Vitagliano, Vincenzo
AU - Weltman, Amanda
AU - Whiting, Bernard
AU - Williamson, Andrew
AU - Witek, Helvi
AU - Wojnar, Aneta
AU - Yakut, Kadri
AU - Yan, Haopeng
AU - Yazadjiev, Stoycho
AU - Zaharijas, Gabrijela
AU - Zilhão, Miguel
N1 - Funding Information: This article is based upon work from COST Action CA16104 'GWverse', supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). We would like to thank Walter del Pozzo for useful comments. AA acknowledges partial support from the Polish National Science Center (NCN) through the grant UMO-2016/23/B/ST9/02732 and is currently supported by the Carl Tryggers Foundation through the grant CTS 17:113. LB acknowledges support from STFC through Grant No. ST/R00045X/1. VC acknowledges financial support provided under the European Union's H2020 ERC Consolidator Grant 'Matter and strong-field gravity: New frontiers in Einstein's theory' grant agreement no. MaGRaTh-646597. TPS acknowledges partial support from Science and Technology Facilities Council Consolidated Grant ST/P000703/1. KB acknowledges support from the Polish National Science Center (NCN) grant: Sonata Bis 2 (DEC-2012/07/E/ST9/01360). EB acknowledges financial support from projects 176003 and 176001 by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia. TB was supported by the TEAM/2016-3/19 grant from FNP. PC acknowledges support from the Austrian Research Fund (FWF), Project P 29517-N16, and by the Polish National Center of Science (NCN) under grant 2016/21/B/ST1/00940. BK acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme ERC-2014-STG under grant agreement No 638435 (GalNUC) and from the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office grant NKFIH KH-125675. GN is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) under grant 200020-168988. PP acknowledges financial support provided under the European Union's H2020 ERC, Starting Grant agreement no. DarkGRA-757480. US acknowledges H2020- MSCA-RISE-2015 Grant No. 690904, NSF Grant No. PHY-090003 and PRACE Tier-0 Grant No. PPFPWG. The Flatiron Institute is supported by the Simons Foundation. PAS acknowledges support from the Ram?n y Cajal Programme of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of Spain. EB supported by NSF Grants No. PHY-1607130 and AST- 1716715. KB, AC, AG, NI, TP and GZ acknowledge financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency. SB acknowledges support by the EU H2020 under ERC Starting Grant, no. BinGraSp-714626. PC-D is supported by the Spanish MINECO (grants AYA2015-66899- C2-1-P and RYC-2015-19074) and the Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEOII-2014-069). DG is supported by NASA through Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant No. PF6-170152 by the Chandra X-ray Center, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under Contract NAS8-03060. RE acknowledges financial support provided by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under the grant no. 117F296. JAF is supported by the Spanish MINECO (AYA2015-66899-C2-1-P), by the Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEOII-2014-069), and by the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 Grant No. FunFiCO-777740. FMR is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (T?BITAK) project 117F295. IR was supported by the POLONEZ programme of the National Science Centre of Poland which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie SklodowskaCurie grant agreement No. 665778. AS thanks the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigaci?n, the Vicepresid?ncia i Conselleria d'Innovaci?, Recerca i Turisme del Govern de les Illes Balears, the European Commission, the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF). NS acknowledges support from DAAD Germany-Greece Grant (ID 57340132) and GWAVES (pr002022) of ARIS-GRNET(Athens). HW acknowledges financial support by the Royal Society UK under the University Research Fellowship UF160547-BHbeyGR and the Research Grant RGF-R1-180073. KY is supported by T?BITAK-117F188. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2019/6/19
Y1 - 2019/6/19
N2 - The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics-dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predictions of General Relativity: event horizons, singularities and ergoregions. The hitherto invisible landscape of the gravitational Universe is being unveiled before our eyes: the historical direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration marks the dawn of a new era of scientific exploration. Gravitational-wave astronomy will allow us to test models of black hole formation, growth and evolution, as well as models of gravitational-wave generation and propagation. It will provide evidence for event horizons and ergoregions, test the theory of General Relativity itself, and may reveal the existence of new fundamental fields. The synthesis of these results has the potential to radically reshape our understanding of the cosmos and of the laws of Nature. The purpose of this work is to present a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the relevant fields of research, summarize important open problems, and lay out a roadmap for future progress. This write-up is an initiative taken within the framework of the European Action on 'Black holes, Gravitational waves and Fundamental Physics'.
AB - The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics-dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predictions of General Relativity: event horizons, singularities and ergoregions. The hitherto invisible landscape of the gravitational Universe is being unveiled before our eyes: the historical direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration marks the dawn of a new era of scientific exploration. Gravitational-wave astronomy will allow us to test models of black hole formation, growth and evolution, as well as models of gravitational-wave generation and propagation. It will provide evidence for event horizons and ergoregions, test the theory of General Relativity itself, and may reveal the existence of new fundamental fields. The synthesis of these results has the potential to radically reshape our understanding of the cosmos and of the laws of Nature. The purpose of this work is to present a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the relevant fields of research, summarize important open problems, and lay out a roadmap for future progress. This write-up is an initiative taken within the framework of the European Action on 'Black holes, Gravitational waves and Fundamental Physics'.
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KW - gravitational-wave astronomy
KW - source modelling
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