Scope

Black holes are among the most exotic objects in the Universe and a crucial testing ground for the interplay between gravity and quantum theory. An improved understanding of such objects is thus expected to be crucial in gaining insight into the (highly sought after) nature of quantum gravity. One of the key aspects in understanding black holes is to understand their thermodynamics, both in the semiclassical (gravity is classical and matter is quantum) and fully quantum senses (gravity itself is quantised). Such study has seen remarkable progress in recent years: the derivation of the