Black holes, naturalness and the renormalization group

par Julio Parra-Martinez (IHES)

jeudi 9 oct. 2025, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Paris

Auditorium Vivargent (LAPTh)

 In this talk I will explain how certain aspects of black hole physics can be understood using ideas from effective field theory. Many of the familiar notions from particle physics will play a role, including a naturalness puzzle, the renormalization group and universality. In particular, I will explain why black holes naively seem like fine-tuned systems, but they are ultimately not. I will also explain how their effective description reveals a degree of universality that can be used to resum certain features of the gravitational waveform for binary mergers observed by LIGO/Virgo/Kagra.