Classical Optics for Charged Black Holes

2025/04/29 by Steve Trettel, Trettel, Steve · 2 voices
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #physics.gen-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.04633

openalex publication_date 2025/04/29 · arxiv published 2025/04/29 · arxiv updated 2025/04/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We describe a method for rendering multiple extremally charged black holes using an analogous system in classical optics, simplifying the prerequisite mathematics for generating accurate images. A primary goal of this work is to showcase a suite of techniques from geometry and relativity that may be of interest to illustrators and artists.

Citations

• Chaotic light scattering around extremal black holes
• A Class of Exact Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations
• Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations with many black holes

Discussions

• There is a new beautiful article by @stevejtrettel.bsky.social on visualizing light around systems of extremal black holes. The illustrations are simply stunning: arxiv.org/abs/2505.04633 thanks! #mat [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
• Steve Trettel: Classical Optics for Charged Black Holes https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04633 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.04633 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.04633 [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]

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