Bohr-like black holes

TL;DR

This paper proposes a Bohr-like quantum model of black holes that aligns with existing quantum gravity results, suggesting black holes can be viewed as highly excited states similar to atomic structures.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Bohr-like quantum model of black holes that is consistent with established results like Bekenstein's area quantization.

Findings

Black holes can be modeled as highly excited quantum states.

The model aligns with Bekenstein's area quantization.

Supports the analogy between black holes and atomic structures.

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.