: Strong gravitational fields near a black hole's event horizon polarize the vacuum, causing the black hole to emit thermal radiation and gradually lose mass.
This framework predicts several landmark effects that bridge the gap between thermodynamics, gravity, and quantum mechanics: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quant...
: An observer accelerating through a Minkowski vacuum will perceive it as a thermal bath of particles at a temperature proportional to their acceleration. : Strong gravitational fields near a black hole's
: A second observer might decompose the same field using a different basis and operators Mixing : The new annihilation operator Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quant...