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We argue that one can nucleate a traversable wormhole via a nonperturbative process in quantum gravity. To support this, we construct spacetimes in which there are instantons giving a finite probability for a test cosmic string to break and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Gary T. Horowitz , Don Marolf , Jorge E. Santos , Diandian Wang

We present a systematic analysis of the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) through Gedankenexperiments involving black hole perturbations induced by test particles. Our approach allows for the calculation of perturbations to any order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Kai-Peng Lu , Peng-Yu Wu , H. Lu

We revisit the Hawking evaporation history of low-temperature rotating black holes by taking into consideration the strong quantum fluctuations known to be present in the near-horizon, near-$\mathrm{AdS_2}$ throat region governed by an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Shu Luo , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

Recent gravitational wave events have suggested the existence of near-solar-mass black holes which cannot be formed via stellar evolution. This has opened up a tantalizing possibility of future detections of both black holes and naked…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-06 Chandrachur Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya

We consider particlelike solutions to supergravity based on the Kerr-Newman black hole (BH) solution. The BH singularity is regularized by means of a phase transition to a new vacuum state near the core region confining a dual gauge field.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander Burinskii

Large curvature perturbations generated during slow first-order phase transitions are a promising source of primordial black holes. However, recent analyses suggested that the mechanism is ruled out once the density contrast and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-22 Wen-Yuan Ai , Ke-Pan Xie

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in extremal and near-extremal Kerr-Newman-(anti-)de Sitter black holes by the scattering of a massive scalar field with an electric charge. Under this scattering, the scalar field fluxes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-13 Bogeun Gwak

We study the process of quantum tunnelling in self-interacting scalar field theories with non-minimal coupling to gravity. In these theories gravitational instantons can develop a neck -- a feature prohibited in theories with minimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Lorenzo Battarra , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

According to the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture, all the singularities produced by the collapsing matter must be hidden behind an event horizon. In 4D general relativity, this implies that the final product of the collapse is a Kerr-Newman…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-04 Cosimo Bambi

Quantum gravity correction is truly important to study tunnelling process of black hole. Base on the generalized uncertainty principle, we investigate the influence of quantum gravity and the result tell us that the quantum gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhen-Yu liu , Ji-Rong Ren

We discuss the quantization of a spherical dust shell in a rigorous manner. Classically, the shell can collapse to form a black hole with a singularity. In the quantum theory, we construct a well-defined self-adjoint extension for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-29 Claus Kiefer

This paper examines how black holes might compute in light of recent models of the black-hole final state. These models suggest that quantum information can escape from the black hole by a process akin to teleportation. They require a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Seth Lloyd

We show that strongly coupled field theories with holographic gravity duals at finite charge density and low temperatures can undergo de Haas - van Alphen quantum oscillations as a function of an external magnetic field. Exhibiting this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-26 Frederik Denef , Sean A. Hartnoll , Subir Sachdev

In this paper, we study the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a scalar field in the background of a large class of quantum black holes that can be formed from gravitational collapse of a dust fluid in the framework of effective loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-24 Chao Zhang , Anzhong Wang

A reformulation of the calculation of the semi-classical energy-momentum tensor on a Schwarzschild background, the Bousso covariant entropy bound, and the ER=EPR conjecture of Maldacena and Susskind taken together suggest a scenario for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-17 James M. Bardeen

Recently, two of us have argued that non-Kerr black holes in gravity theories different from General Relativity may have a topologically non-trivial event horizon. More precisely, the spatial topology of the horizon of non-rotating and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-16 Cosimo Bambi , Francesco Caravelli , Leonardo Modesto

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for Kerr-Sen black holes, which are solutions to the four-dimensional low-energy effective field theory for the heterotic string theory, based on the scattering of a charged scalar field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Bogeun Gwak

We calculate the quasinormal modes of a nonsingular spherically symmetric black hole effective model with holonomy corrections. The model is based on quantum corrections inspired by loop quantum gravity. It is covariant and results in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Douglas M. Gingrich

We extend our previous analysis of the modification of the spectrum of black hole radiance due to the simplest and probably most quantitatively important back-reaction effect, that is self-gravitational interaction, to the case of charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Per Kraus , Frank Wilczek

We develop farther a simple model of cold dark matter consisting of sterile spin-1/2 fermions (sterinos), whose mass is generated by a nonzero vacuum expectation value of a field of sterile scalars (sterons). In this model, the sterile…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-07 Wojciech Krolikowski