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Can a Black Hole Collapse to a Space-time Singularity?

General Physics 2008-06-24 v2

Abstract

A critique of the singularity theorems of Penrose, Hawking, and Geroch is given. It is pointed out that a gravitationally collapsing black hole acts as an ultrahigh energy particle accelerator that can accelerate particles to energies inconceivable in any terrestrial particle accelerator, and that when the energy EE of the particles comprising matter in a black hole is 102GeV\sim 10^{2} GeV or more, or equivalently, the temperature TT is 1015K\sim 10^{15} K or more, the entire matter in the black hole is converted into quark-gluon plasma permeated by leptons. As quarks and leptons are fermions, it is emphasized that the collapse of a black-hole to a space-time singularity is inhibited by Pauli's exclusion principle. It is also suggested that ultimately a black hole may end up either as a stable quark star, or as a pulsating quark star which may be a source of gravitational radiation, or it may simply explode with a mini bang of a sort.

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@article{arxiv.0704.1661,
  title  = {Can a Black Hole Collapse to a Space-time Singularity?},
  author = {R. K. Thakur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1661},
  year   = {2008}
}

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15 pages, 0 figures, typo corrected