Matrix scattering and the black hole interior

arXiv:2610.31700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex-time singularities of thermal correlators carry imprints of black hole interiors. We investigate their microscopic origin in matrix quantum mechanics at high temperature, where the dynamics becomes semi-classical. We introduce a complex-time scattering kernel that encodes these singularities and makes their finite-$N$ resolution accessible to numerics. Studying both integrable and chaotic models, we find evidence for a smoothing scale $\Delta t\sim N^{-1/2}$, suggesting that the resolution is due to quantum fluctuations of D-branes. This scattering picture provides a starting point for probing the black hole interior beyond a classical geometric description.