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We apply the new version of gedanken experiment designed recently by Sorce and Wald, to over-spin the 5-dimensional Myers-Perry black holes. As a result, the extremal black holes cannot be over-spun at the linear order. On the other hand,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-16 Jincheng An , Jieru Shan , Hongbao Zhang , Suting Zhao

Black holes of mass M must have a spin angular momentum S below the Kerr limit chi = S/M^2 < 1, but whether astrophysical black holes can attain this limiting spin depends on their accretion history. Gas accretion from a thin disk limits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-21 Michael Kesden , Guglielmo Lockhart , E. Sterl Phinney

The specific angular momentum of a Kerr black hole must not be larger than its mass. The observational confirmation of this bound which we call a Kerr bound directly suggests the existence of a black hole. In order to investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Rohta Takahashi , Tomohiro Harada

In this paper, we continue our study of the motion of spinning test bodies orbiting Kerr black holes. Non-spinning test bodies follow geodesics of the spacetime in which they move. A test body's spin couples to the curvature of that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Lisa V. Drummond , Scott A. Hughes

We consider gedanken experiments to destroy an extremal or nearly extremal Kerr-Newman black hole by causing it to absorb matter with sufficient charge and/or angular momentum as compared with energy that it cannot remain a black hole. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Jonathan Sorce , Robert M. Wald

It has recently been pointed out that particles falling freely from rest at infinity outside a Kerr black hole can in principle collide with arbitrarily high center of mass energy in the limiting case of maximal black hole spin. Here we aim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Ted Jacobson , Thomas P. Sotiriou

It has long been known that, in higher-dimensional general relativity, there are black hole solutions with an arbitrarily large angular momentum for a fixed mass. We examine the geometry of the event horizon of such ultra-spinning black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Roberto Emparan , Robert C. Myers

We test the validity of cosmic censorship in the rotating anti-de Sitter black hole. For this purpose, we investigate whether the extremal black hole can be overspun by the particle absorption. The particle absorption will change the mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-11 Bogeun Gwak , Bum-Hoon Lee

In the standard paradigm, astrophysical black holes can be described solely by their mass and angular momentum - commonly referred to as `spin' - resulting from the process of their birth and subsequent growth via accretion. Whilst the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-19 Matthew Middleton

Nowadays we believe that a typical galaxy contains about $10^7$ stellar-mass black holes and a single super-massive black hole at its center. According to general relativity, these objects are characterized solely by their mass $M$ and by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-24 Cosimo Bambi

We discuss how in certain theories of spacetime admitting a maximal proper acceleration Hawking radiation does not completely evaporate the black hole. The black hole remnant's mass depends on the inverse of the maximal acceleration.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

It has been claimed that a Kerr-Newman black hole can generically be overspun by neutral test fields, and it has been argued that even when backreactions are taken into account, the black hole can still be destroyed. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Si-Jiang Yang , Zheng-Quan Cui , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We show that, contrary to a widespread belief, one can overcharge a near extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black hole by throwing in a charged particle, as long as the backreaction effects may be considered negligible. Furthermore, we find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Veronika E. Hubeny

In this paper, we investigate the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in nearly extremal Kerr black hole by absorbing particles . In previous work, they ignore the process of black hole absorbing particles. They assume the whole particle can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-17 Shun Jiang

Generally black hole could be over charged/spun violating the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for linear order accretion while the same is always restored back for non-linear accretion. The only exception however is that of a five…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-29 Sanjar Shaymatov , Naresh Dadhich , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Mubasher Jamil

Recently, several authors have studied the possibility of overspinning or overcharging an existing black hole to destroy its event horizon and make the central singularity naked. When all the effects are properly taken into account, any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-24 Zilong Li , Cosimo Bambi

We revisit here the recent proposal for overspinning a nearly extreme black hole by means of a quantum tunneling process. We show that electrically neutral massless fermions evade possible back reactions effects related to superradiance,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 Mauricio Richartz , Alberto Saa

We investigate the scattering of a spinning test particle by a Kerr black hole within the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon model to linear order in spin. The particle's spin and orbital angular momentum are taken to be aligned with the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Justin Vines

Though under nonlinear accretion, all black holes in four and higher dimensions obey the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (CCC); however, they generally violate it for linear test particle accretion with the exception of five-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Sanjar Shaymatov , Naresh Dadhich , Bobomurat Ahmedov

A natural combined model of the Kerr spinning particle and superparticle is obtained leading to a non-trivial super black hole solution. By analogue with complex structure of the Kerr solution we perform a supershift on the Kerr geometry,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Alexander Burinskii