Weak Cosmic Censorship: As Strong as Ever

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dc.creatorHod, Shahar
dc.date2008-05-26
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dc.descriptionSpacetime singularities that arise in gravitational collapse are always hidden inside of black holes. This is the essence of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. The hypothesis, put forward by Penrose 40 years ago, is still one of the most important open questions in general relativity. In this Letter, we reanalyze extreme situations which have been considered as counterexamples to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. In particular, we consider the absorption of scalar particles with large angular momentum by a black hole. Ignoring back reaction effects may lead one to conclude that the incident wave may overspin the black hole, thereby exposing its inner singularity to distant observers. However, we show that when back reaction effects are properly taken into account, the stability of the black-hole event horizon is irrefutable. We therefore conclude that cosmic censorship is actually respected in this type of gedanken experiments.
dc.description4 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3873
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3873
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett.100:121101,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.121101
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/198042
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleWeak Cosmic Censorship: As Strong as Ever
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