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Twisted light, a new tool for General Relativity and beyond

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Fabrizio Tamburini, Fabiano Feleppa, Bo Thidé

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Submitted 4 Jul 2021

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The authors' main claim 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.

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CitationBo Thid\'e, Fabiano Feleppa, Fabrizio Tamburini. "Twisted light, a new tool for General Relativity and beyond." arXiv:2107.01599 (2021). https://pith.science/paper/B7J6VFMX
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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 of this physical observable as an additional tool for the previously known techniques of gravitational lensing allows us to directly measure, for the first time, the spin parameter of a black hole. With the additional information encoded in the orbital angular momentum, not only can we reveal the actual rotation of the compact object, but we can also use rotating black holes as probes to test General Relativity.

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s0 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. result 0.93 0.90 0.78 asserted 1.00
s1 The novel use of this physical observable as an additional tool for the previously known techniques of gravitational lensing allows us to directly measure, for the first time, the spin parameter of a black hole. result 0.49 0.87 0.34 asserted 1.00
s2 With the additional information encoded in the orbital angular momentum, not only can we reveal the actual rotation of the compact object, but we can also use rotating black holes as probes to test General Relativity. interpretation 0.93 0.51 0.25 asserted 0.63

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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 of this physical observable as an additional tool for the previously known techniques of gravitational lensing allows us to directly measure, for the first time, the spin parameter of a black hole. With the additional information encoded in the orbital angular momentum, not only can we reveal the actual rotation of the compact object, but we can also use rotating black holes as probes to test General Relativity.

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