Construction of a Penrose Diagram for an Accreting Black Hole
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-02-09 v1
Abstract
A Penrose diagram is constructed for a spatially coherent black hole that accretes at stepwise steady rates as measured by a distant observer from an initial state described by a metric of Minkowski form. Coordinate lines are computationally derived, and radial light-like trajectories verify the viability of the diagram. Coordinate dependencies of significant features, such as the horizon and radial mass scale, are clearly demonstrated on the diagram. The onset of a singularity at the origin is shown to open a new region in space-time that contains the interior of the black hole.
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@article{arxiv.0811.0629,
title = {Construction of a Penrose Diagram for an Accreting Black Hole},
author = {Beth A. Brown and James Lindesay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0629},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, 1 figure