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Black holes harbor a spacetime singularity of infinite curvature, where classical spacetime physics breaks down, and current theory cannot predict what will happen. However, the singularity is invisible from the outside because strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-10 Ted Jacobson , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) violation through the absorption of a charged, rotating test particle by Kerr Newman spacetime in modified gravity (KN MOG). The result is sensitive to multiple factors, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Waqar Ahmad , Abdul Rehman Kashif

We test whether static charged dilaton black holes in 2+1 dimensions can be turned into naked singularities, by sending in test particles from infinity. We derive that overcharging is possible and generic for both extremal and nearly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-01 Koray Düztaş , Mubasher Jamil

End state of gravitational collapse and the related cosmic censorship conjecture continue to be amongst the most important open problems in gravitation physics today. My purpose here is to bring out several aspects related to gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Pankaj S. Joshi

It has been shown previously that an extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om or an extremal Kerr black hole cannot be overcharged or overspun by a test particle if radiative and self-force effects are neglected. In this paper, we consider extremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-02 Yuan Zhang , Sijie Gao

In the conventional approach, fermionic test fields lead to a generic overspinning of black holes resulting in the formation of naked singularities. The absorption of the fermionic test fields with arbitrarily low frequencies is allowed for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-28 Koray Düztaş

We explore the cosmic censorship in the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory following Wald's thought experiment to destroy a black hole by throwing in a test particle. We discover that at probe limit the extremal charged dilaton black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-01 Ten-Yeh Yu , Wen-Yu Wen

We examine Hubeny's scenario according to which a near-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole can absorb a particle and be driven toward an over-extremal state in which the charge exceeds the mass, signaling the destruction of the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Zimmerman , Ian Vega , Eric Poisson , Roland Haas

According to the cosmic censorship hypothesis of Penrose, naked singularities should never occur in realistic collapse situations. One of the major open problems in this context is the existence of a naked singularity in the Kerr solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Rudnicki

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in Kerr-(anti-)de Sitter black holes under the scattering of a scalar field. We test the conjecture in terms of whether the black hole can exceed the extremal condition with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-18 Bogeun Gwak

We test the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for magnetized Kerr-Newman spacetime via the method of injecting a test particle. Hence, we need to know how the black hole's parameters change when a test particle enters the horizon. This was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Yunjiao Gao , Sijie Gao

Motivated by the recent researches of black holes with NUT charge, we investigate the validity of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for Kerr-Taub-NUT black hole with a test massive scalar field and a test particle, respectively. For the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Si-Jiang Yang , Jing Chen , Jun-Jie Wan , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

This article gives an elementary overview of the end-state of gravitational collapse according to classical general relativity. The focus of discussion is the formation of black holes and naked singularities in various physically reasonable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Singh

We consider the possibility that the weak cosmic censorship conjecture can be violated using the Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse model with a perfect fluid star interior. Metric models with a naked singularity can be used, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Il Gyeong Choi , Dong-han Yeom

If entanglement builds spacetime, then conversely, disentanglement ought to destroy spacetime. From the quantum null energy condition and quantum focusing conjecture, we obtain disentanglement criteria which necessitate infinite energies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Hong Zhe Chen

We argue that a black hole can be viewed as a gravitational optical element that images its interior onto the horizon. Being diffraction limited the "Airy hyper-ball" that forms as a result of interference of gravitational waves, does not…

General Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Asher Klatchko

There is a possibility that the event horizon of a Kerr-like black hole with perfect fluid dark matter (DM) can be destroyed, providing a potential opportunity for understanding the weak cosmic censorship conjecture of black holes. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-02 Liping Meng , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

A simple argument is given that a traversable Cauchy horizon inside a black hole is incompatible with unitary black hole evolution. The argument assumes the validity of black hole complementarity and applies to a generic black hole carrying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Larus Thorlacius

It was investigated recently, with the aim of testing the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, whether an extremal Kerr black hole can be converted into a naked singularity by interaction with a massless classical Dirac test field, and it was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-06 Gabor Zsolt Toth

The destruction of the black-hole event horizon is ruled out by both cosmic censorship and the generalized second law of thermodynamics. We test the consistency of this prediction in a (more) `dangerous' version of the gedanken experiment…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Shahar Hod