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Astronomical tests for quantum black hole structure

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Black holes present a profound challenge to our current foundations of physics, and an exciting era of astronomy is just opening in which gravitational-wave observation and very-long-baseline interferometry may provide important hints about the new principles of physics needed.

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This work was supported in part by the Department of Energy under contract no. DE-SC0011702, and by Foundational Questions Institute (fqxi.org) grant FQXi-RFP-1507.

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  1. Steven B. Giddings is in the Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106, California, USA

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Giddings, S. Astronomical tests for quantum black hole structure. Nat Astron 1, 0067 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0067

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