Figure 5

Figure 5: The physical setup for the scattering problem. A star of mass M has undergone spherically symmetric collapse to form a black hole. The ingoing null worldtube N lies outside the collapsing matter. Inside N (but outside the matter) there is a vacuum Schwarzschild metric. Outside of N, data for an ingoing pulse is specified on the initial outgoing null hypersurface - J. As the pulse propagates to the black hole event horizon + H, part of its energy is scattered to + I.