Seeing through a nearly black star
arXiv:1910.13198 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.025005
Abstract
A nearly black, gravitationally intense star of semi-transparent, spherical, massive shell containing a few pointlike light sources inside would be perceived not like a three-dimensional ball for a localized observer outside the shell in terms of the affine or binocular distance. As the radius of the spherical shell approaches the Schwarzschild radius, the perceived distance between the front and rear surfaces of the shell would go to zero, while the images of most of the interior emitters would squeeze around the shell surfaces in terms of the affine or binocular distance. So, the Schwarzschild black hole formed from the star would be thought of as a two-dimensional membrane for the observers who can only measure the binocular distance and/or affine distance. However, the depth information of a point source inside the nearly black star can still be resolved in terms of the radar or luminosity distance, which needs the knowledge about the radar signals or standard candles sent in earlier by the observer outside the star. This suggests that at late times of gravitational collapse the area law of the entropy would dominate over the volume law for outside observers due to the loss of the knowledge about the ingoing probes earlier.
arXiv comment21 pages, 8 figures, new appendices and references added
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