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Approaching the event horizon of a black hole

General Physics 2012-09-27 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

It is argued that it takes an infinite amount of external time for a freely falling test particle to reach the event horizon of a classical black hole (which happens in finite faller time), and that in this time the black hole would have evaporated due to Hawking radiation; so the freely falling test particle would itself evaporate at the event horizon, and so not pass through.

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@article{arxiv.1209.2113,
  title  = {Approaching the event horizon of a black hole},
  author = {A. Y. Shiekh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.2113},
  year   = {2012}
}

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6 pages, no figures; original submission date: 27 Jun 2012