Classical Optics for Charged Black Holes

Year: 2025 Authors: Steve Trettel

Core claim

Null geodesics in Majumdar-Papapetrou black hole spacetimes correspond to light paths in a flat medium with refractive index n = U^2.

Topics

ray tracing, null geodesics, refractive index, black hole shadows

Domains

differential geometry, general relativity, Lorentzian geometry, scientific visualization, illustration, computer graphics

Methods

conformal rescaling, geodesic projection, optical analog modeling

Media

3D rendering engine, variable refractive medium, glass analogy

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