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Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Ahmed Almheiri
Institute for Advanced Study
2
Venkatesa Chandrasekaran
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
3
Andreas Blommaert
Ghent University
4
Marieke van Beest
Purchase College
5
Ioannis D. Gialamas
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
6
Pierre Auclair
UCLouvain
7
Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos
University of Peloponnese
8
Yilber Fabian Bautista
Perimeter Institute
9
Moreshwar Tayde
Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Hyderabad Campus
10
Gaurav N. Gadbail
Fukushima University

Papers

1
Interpreting DESI 2024 BAO: Late-time dynamical dark energy or a local effect?
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2025
92 cit.
2
Publication in Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2024) [66 citations, W4396219165]
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2024
66 cit.
3
Keeping the relation between the Starobinsky model and no-scale supergravity ACTive
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics|2025
42 cit.
4
Dynamical actions and q-representation theory for double-scaled SYK
Journal of High Energy Physics|2024
41 cit.
5
Quintessence and phantoms in light of DESI 2025
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2025
38 cit.
6
Publication in Nuclear Physics B (2024) [25 citations, W4392124715]
Nuclear Physics B|2024
25 cit.
7
Has ACT measured radiative corrections to the tree-level Higgs-like inflation?
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2025
23 cit.
8
Universal constraints on energy flow and SYK thermalization
Journal of High Energy Physics|2024
20 cit.
9
Publication in Journal of High Energy Physics (2025) [20 citations, W4412177306]
Journal of High Energy Physics|2025
20 cit.
10
Publication in The European Physical Journal C (2024) [19 citations, W4399795453]
The European Physical Journal C|2024
19 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Amirhossein Tajdini
University of California, Santa Barbara
2
Zhenbin Yang
Tsinghua University
3
Tayyab Naseer
Khazar University
4
Faisal Javed
Zhejiang Normal University
5
Justin Vines
Cornell University
6
M. Teo
Stanford University
7
Yu-tin Huang
National Taiwan University
8
Romain Ruzziconi
Woodwell Climate Research Center
9
Supriya Pan
Durban University of Technology
10
Manus R. Visser
Radboud University Nijmegen

Papers

1
Carrollian Perspective on Celestial Holography
Physical Review Letters|2022
230 cit.
2
Bridging Carrollian and celestial holography
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2023
153 cit.
3
Holographic thermodynamics requires a chemical potential for color
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2022
137 cit.
4
Holographic CFT phase transitions and criticality for charged AdS black holes
Journal of High Energy Physics|2022
97 cit.
5
Finite-time cosmological singularities and the possible fate of the Universe
Physics Reports|2023
90 cit.
6
Thermal analysis with emission energy of perturbed black hole in f(Q) gravity
Nuclear Physics B|2023
86 cit.
7
Quasi-local energy and microcanonical entropy in two-dimensional nearly de Sitter gravity
Journal of High Energy Physics|2022
83 cit.
8
Holographic Dual of Extended Black Hole Thermodynamics
Physical Review Letters|2023
81 cit.
9
Existence of non-singular stellar solutions within the context of electromagnetic field: a comparison between minimal and non-minimal gravity models
The European Physical Journal C|2024
78 cit.
10
Implications of vanishing complexity condition in $$f({\textbf{R}})$$ theory
The European Physical Journal C|2024
76 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study
2
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University Press
3
Sergei D. Odintsov
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
4
A.A. Tseytlin
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
5
Andrew Strominger
Harvard University Press
6
Nathan Seiberg
Institute for Advanced Study
7
S. W. Hawking
University of Cambridge
8
Paul Townsend
University of Cambridge
9
Raman Sundrum
University of Maryland, College Park
10
Frank Wilczek
Stockholm University

Papers

1
Anti de Sitter space and holography
Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics|1998
13.3k cit.
2
Particle creation by black holes
Communications in Mathematical Physics|1975
12.9k cit.
3
Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension
Physical Review Letters|1999
9.3k cit.
4
An Alternative to Compactification
Physical Review Letters|1999
7.3k cit.
5
Black hole explosions?
Nature|1974
5.6k cit.
6
Quantum field theory and the Jones polynomial
Communications in Mathematical Physics|1989
4.9k cit.
7
Problem of Strong<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>P</mml:mi></mml:math>and<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:math>Invariance in the Presence of Instantons
Physical Review Letters|1978
4.7k cit.
8
Ultraviolet Behavior of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
Physical Review Letters|1973
4.3k cit.
9
Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories
Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics|1998
4k cit.
10
The four laws of black hole mechanics
Communications in Mathematical Physics|1973
3.9k cit.

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