Is the Carter-Israel conjecture correct?
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2009-08-25 v1
Abstract
According to the Carter-Israel conjecture, the end-state of the gravitational collapse of matter is a Kerr-Newman black hole. Nevertheless, neither the theory nor observations can confirm that. In this talk, we discuss the possibility that the collapsing matter can create a super-spinning compact object with no event horizon, and we show how near future observations at sub-millimeter wavelength of SgrA* can test this scenario for the black hole candidate in the Galactic Center.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.3238,
title = {Is the Carter-Israel conjecture correct?},
author = {Cosimo Bambi and Katherine Freese and Rohta Takahashi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3238},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the proceedings of "21th Rencontres de Blois: Windows on the Universe" (Blois, France, 21-27 June 2009)