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Non-isolated dynamic black holes and white holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Modifying the Kerr-Schild transformation used to generate black and white hole spacetimes, new dynamic black and white holes are obtained using a time-dependent Kerr-Schild scalar field. Physical solutions are found for black holes that shrink with time and for white holes that expand with time. The black hole spacetimes are physical only in the vicinity of the black hole, with the physical region increasing in radius with time. The white hole spacetimes are physical throughout. Unlike the standard Schwarzschild solution the singularities are non-isolated, since the time-dependence introduces a mass-energy distribution. The surfaces in the metrics where g_{tt}=g^{rr}=0 are dynamic, moving inward with time for the black holes and outward for the white holes, which leads to a question of whether these spacetimes truly have event horizons--a problem shared with Vaidya's cosmological black hole spacetimes. By finding a surface that shrinks or expands at the same rate as the null geodesics move, and within which null geodesics move inward or outward faster than the surfaces shrink or expand respectively, it is verified that these do in fact behave like black and white holes.

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@article{arxiv.0803.2671,
  title  = {Non-isolated dynamic black holes and white holes},
  author = {M. L. McClure and Kaem Anderson and Kirk Bardahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2671},
  year   = {2008}
}

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To appear in Physical Review D

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