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Cosmic censorship is known to fail in some well-controlled phenomena, calling into question the predictive power of General Relativity and opening up the possibility of observing Planck-scale physics. We propose that the cosmic censorship…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-07 Roberto Emparan

We perform extensive nonlinear numerical simulations of the spherical collapse of (charged) wavepackets onto a charged black hole within Einstein-Maxwell theory and in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory featuring nonminimal couplings and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Fabrizio Corelli , Taishi Ikeda , Paolo Pani

We investigate weak cosmic censorship conjecture in charged torus-like black hole by the complex scalar field scattering. Using the relation between the conserved quantities of a black hole and the scalar field, we can calculate the change…

General Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Wei Hong , Berong Mu , Jun Tao

We consider here the question if it is possible to recover cosmic censorship when a transition is made to higher dimensional spacetimes, by studying the spherically symmetric dust collapse in an arbitrary higher spacetime dimension. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Rituparno Goswami , Pankaj S Joshi

We construct a gedanken experiment, in which a weak wave packet of the complex massive scalar field interacts with a four-parameter (mass, angular momentum, electric and magnetic charges) Kerr-Newman black hole. We show that this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-23 Ibrahim Semiz

We demonstrate that the X-ray iron line fitting technique can be leveraged as a powerful probe of the cosmic censorship conjecture. We do this by extending existing emission line models to arbitrary spin parameters of the Kerr metric, no…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 Andrew Mummery , Adam Ingram

Strong cosmic censorship conjecture is central to the deterministic nature of general relativity, since it asserts that given any generic initial data on a spacelike hypersurface, the future can be uniquely predicted. However, recently it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-22 Mostafizur Rahman , Soumodeep Mitra , Sumanta Chakraborty

In this work we examine the small mass limit of black holes, with and without spin, in theories where a scalar field is non-minimally coupled to a Gauss-Bonnet term. First, we provide an analytical example for a theory where a static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-16 Pedro G. S. Fernandes , David J. Mulryne , Jorge F. M. Delgado

The hypothesis of cosmic censorship (CCH) plays a crucial role in classical general relativity, namely to ensure that naked singularities would never emerge, since it predicts that whenever a singularity is formed an event horizon would…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we wish to investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for the non black hole object, Buchdahl star and test its validity. It turns out that the extremal limit for the star is over-extremal for black hole,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Sanjar Shaymatov , Naresh Dadhich

The critical collapse of a scalar field is a threshold solution of black hole formation, in which a naked singularity arises. We study here the curvature strength of this singularity using a numerical ansatz. The behavior of the Jacobi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-16 Jun-Qi Guo , Lin Zhang , Yuewen Chen , Pankaj S. Joshi , Hongsheng Zhang

We investigate the validity of weak cosmic censorship conjecture for electrically charged black holes in the presence of gravity's rainbow under charged particle absorption. The rainbow effect is shown to play an important role when the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-07 Yongwan Gim , Bogeun Gwak

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

The weak cosmic censorship conjecture (wCCC) might not be as robust as one would expect. We present a potential counterexample to the wCCC in a rotating three-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS$_3$) spacetime. We extend the parameter range of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Masaya Amo

It is well known that the electrically charged Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole could be overcharged. Here, we investigate the process of overcharging of a magnetized Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole that includes effect of the magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov

We attempt to destroy the event horizons of Kerr black holes by perturbing them with massless spin (3/2) fields. We carry out a detailed analysis by incorporating the explicit form of the absorption probabilities and backreaction effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-11 Koray Düztaş

We investigate extremal electrically charged black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with a cosmological constant inspired by string theory. These solutions are not static, and a timelike singularity eventually appears which is not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-06 James H. Horne , Gary T. Horowitz

The thermodynamics and weak cosmic censorship conjecture in Reissner-Nordstr$\ddot{o}$m anti-de Sitter black holes are investigated by the scattering of the scalar field. The first law of thermodynamics in the non-extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-17 Deyou Chen , Wei Yang , Xiaoxiong Zeng

We present results of a comprehensive study of collapsing and bouncing thin shells with rotation, framing it in the context of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. The analysis is based on a formalism developed specifically for higher odd…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Jorge V. Rocha , Raphael Santarelli

Gravitational collapse of radiation shells in a non self-similar higher dimensional spherically symmetric spacetime is studied. Strong curvature naked singularities form for a highly inhomogeneous collapse, violating the cosmic censorship…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 S G Ghosh , R V Saraykar , A Beesham