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We will now introduce the central objects of interest, namely, black holes. These arise from gravitational collapse of an object with some mass which is compressed into a small region of space-time. It is characterized by a curvature singularity at the origin which is ‘screened’ to outside observers by a coordinate singularity at finite radial distance. This coordinate singularity is known as the event horizon, which will be seen to exhibit deep connections with thermodynamic systems.
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Lüst, D., Vleeshouwers, W. (2019). Black Holes. In: Black Hole Information and Thermodynamics. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10919-6_6
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