Bohr-like black holes

Abstract

The idea that black holes (BHs) result in highly excited states representing both the "hydrogen atom" and the "quasi-thermal emission" in quantum gravity is today an intuitive but general conviction. In this paper it will be shown that such an intuitive picture is more than a picture. In fact, we will discuss a model of quantum BH somewhat similar to the historical semi-classical model of the structure of a hydrogen atom introduced by Bohr in 1913. The model is completely consistent with existing results in the literature, starting from the celebrated result of Bekenstein on the area quantization.Comment: 5 pages, Invited Plenary Lecture at the 12th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, 22-28 September 2014. Published in AIP Proceedings, Editors: Theodore E. Simos and Charalambos Tsitouras. Founded on the research papers arXiv:1304.1899 and arXiv:1210.774