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most citedMeasurement of the spin of the M87 black hole from its observed twisted light

149 citations

15 papers

gr-qc2021★ 10 cited

Majorana quanta, string scattering, curved spacetimes and the Riemann Hypothesis

Fabrizio Tamburini, Ignazio Licata

The Riemann Hypothesis states that the Riemann zeta function admits a set of ``non-trivial'' zeros that are complex numbers supposed to have real part . Their distribut…

gr-qc2021★ 13 cited

Twisted light, a new tool for General Relativity and beyond

Fabrizio Tamburini, Fabiano Feleppa, Bo Thidé

We describe and present the first observational evidence that light propagating near a rotating black hole is twisted in phase and carries orbital angular momentum. The novel use o…

gr-qc2021★ 18 cited

Kerr spacetime geometric optics for vortex beams

Fabrizio Tamburini, Fabiano Feleppa, Ignazio Licata +1

We apply the analogy between gravitational fields and optical media in the general relativistic geometric optics framework to describe how light can acquire orbital angular momentu…

gr-qc2021★ 8 cited

Quantum oscillations in the black hole horizon

C. Corda, F. Feleppa, F. Tamburini +1

By applying Rosen's quantization approach to the historical Oppenheimer and Snyder gravitational collapse and by setting the constraints for the formation of the Schwarzschild blac…

gr-qc2021★ 22 cited

Constraining the Generalized Uncertainty Principle with the light twisted by rotating black holes and M87*

Fabrizio Tamburini, Fabiano Feleppa, Bo Thidé

We test the validity of the Generalized Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle in the presence of strong gravitational fields nearby rotating black holes; Heisenberg's principle is sup…

gr-qc2020★ 12 cited

On the quantization of the extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black hole

C. Corda, F. Feleppa, F. Tamburini

Following Rosen's quantization rules, two of the Authors (CC and FF) recently described the Schwarzschild black hole (BH) formed after the gravitational collapse of a pressureless…

gr-qc2019★ 26 cited

General Relativistic Wormhole Connections from Planck-Scales and the ER = EPR Conjecture

Fabrizio Tamburini, Ignazio Licata

Einstein's equations of general relativity (GR) can describe the connection between events within a given hypervolume of size larger than the Planck length in terms of wo…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 149 cited

Measurement of the spin of the M87 black hole from its observed twisted light

Fabrizio Tamburini, Bo Thidé, Massimo Della Valle

We present the first observational evidence that light propagating near a rotating black hole is twisted in phase and carries orbital angular momentum (OAM). This physical observab…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 46 cited

Accretion in Strong Field Gravity with eXTP

Alessandra De Rosa, Phil Uttley, Lijun Gou +99

In this paper we describe the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies related to accretion flows in the strong field gravity regime around…

physics.optics2017★ 17 cited

Majorana states for subluminal structured photons

Fabrizio Tamburini, Bo Thidé, Ignazio Licata +2

The speed of light in vacuum, , is a fundamental constant of nature. Photons belonging to a structured beam of finite transverse size, generated by a spatial light modulator, ha…

gr-qc2017★ 6 cited

Radiation from charged particles due to explicit symmetry breaking in a gravitational field

Fabrizio Tamburini, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Ignazio Licata

The paradox of a free falling radiating charged particle in a gravitational field, is a well-known fascinating conceptual challenge that involves classical electrodynamics and gene…

gr-qc2017★ 13 cited

Twisted soft photon hair implants on Black Holes

Fabrizio Tamburini, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Ignazio Licata +1

The Hawking-Perry-Strominger (HPS) work [1] states a new controversial idea about the black hole (BH) information paradox [2-5] where BHs maximally entropize and encode information…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 7 cited

Can the periodic spectral modulations of the 236 SETI candidate Sloan Survey stars be due to Dark Matter effects?

Fabrizio Tamburini, Ignazio Licata

The search for dark matter (DM) is one of the most active and challenging areas of current research. Possible DM candidates are ultralight fields such as axions and weak interactin…

gr-qc2016★ 9 cited

General relativistic massive vector field effects in Gamma Ray Burst production

Fabrizio Tamburini, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Lorenzo Amati +1

To explain the extremely high energy release, ~erg, suggested by the observations of some Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) we propose a new energy extraction mechanism from the ro…

cs.SD2000★ 15 cited

Generalization of a 3-D resonator model for the simulation of spherical enclosures

Davide Rocchesso, Pierre Dutilleux

A rectangular enclosure has such an even distribution of resonances that it can be accurately and efficiently modelled using a feedback delay network. Conversely, a non rectangular…