Hawking radiation may violate the Penrose cosmic censorship conjecture
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2021-02-17 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We analyze the Hawking evaporation process of Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes. It is shown that the characteristic radiation quanta emitted by the charged black holes may turn near-extremal black-hole spacetimes into horizonless naked singularities. The present analysis therefore reveals the intriguing possibility that the semi-classical Hawking evaporation process of black holes may violate the fundamental Penrose cosmic censorship conjecture.
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@article{arxiv.2102.05519,
title = {Hawking radiation may violate the Penrose cosmic censorship conjecture},
author = {Shahar Hod},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.05519},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
5 pages. This essay received an Honorable Mention from the Gravity Research Foundation 2019