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We review the status of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, which asserts, in essence, that all singularities of gravitational collapse are hidden within black holes. Although little progress has been made toward a general proof (or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert M. Wald

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

There exists an upper limit on the mass of black holes when the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ is positive. We study the collision of two black holes whose total mass exceeds this limit. Our investigation is based on a recently discovered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Dieter Brill , Gary Horowitz , David Kastor , Jennie Traschen

Transforming Penrose's intuitive picture of a strong cosmic censorship principle, that generically forbids the appearance of locally naked space-time singularities, into a formal mathematical proof, remains at present, one of the most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Wenceslao Santiago-Germán

A surprising connection between the weak gravity conjecture and cosmic censorship has recently been proposed. In particular, it was argued that a promising class of counterexamples to cosmic censorship in four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Toby Crisford , Gary T. Horowitz , Jorge E. Santos

Currently available topological censorship theorems are meant for gravitationally isolated black hole spacetimes with cosmological constant $\Lambda=0$ or $\Lambda<0$. Here, we prove a topological censorship theorem that is compatible with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Martin Lesourd , Eric Ling

In supersymmetric theories the mass of any state is bounded below by the values of some of its charges. The corresponding bounds in case of Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes are known to coincide with the requirement that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Tomás Ortín , Amanda Peet , Antoine Van Proeyen

The classical Penrose inequality, a relation between the ADM mass and the area of any cross section of the black hole event horizon, was introduced as a test of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture: if it fails, the trapped surface is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Eduardo Hafemann , Eleni-Alexandra Kontou

Penrose's weak cosmic censorship conjecture asserts that spacetime singularities produced by gravitational collapse are generically hidden behind event horizons, thus preventing them from causally influencing distant observers and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Giovanni Caridi , Fabrizio Corelli , Paolo Pani

There is a claim that a static charged black hole (Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole) can be overcharged by absorbing a charged test particle. If it is true, it might give a counter example to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-20 Soichiro Isoyama , Norichika Sago , Takahiro Tanaka

With the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, we obtain the energy-momentum relation of a charged particle as it is absorbed by the Gauss-Bonnet AdS black hole. On the basis of the energy-momentum relation at the event horizon, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Xin-Yun Hu , Ke-Jian He

A very interesting work that has recently appeared in the physics literature [arXiv:1810.00886] claims that the strong cosmic censorship conjecture, a fundamental cornerstone of black-hole physics, may be violated in asymptotically de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-12 Shahar Hod

Supplementing earlier literature by e.g. Tipler, Clarke, & Ellis (1980), Israel (1987), Thorne, (1994), Earman (1999), Senovilla & Garfinkle (2015), Curiel (2019ab), and Landsman (2021ab), I provide a historical and conceptual analysis of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Klaas Landsman

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

Cosmic censorship protects the outside world from black hole singularities and paves the way for assigning entropy to gravity at the event horizons. We point out a tension between cosmic censorship and the quantum backreacted geometry of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-21 José Navarro-Salas

The (zeroth-order) energy of a particle in the background of a black hole is given by Carter's integrals. However, exact calculations of a particle's {\it self-energy} (first-order corrections) are still beyond our present reach in many…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Shahar Hod

The singularity problem has always been a focus of physicists' research. In order to solve this problem, Penrose proposed the cosmic censorship conjecture, but verifying this conjecture in different situations still faces many challenges.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Zhiqin Tu , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

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

In this paper, we investigate the strong cosmic censorship conjecture (SCC) for charged black holes in the de Sitter space by considering the weak gravity conjecture (WGC). Using analytical methods, we find that the SCC is preserved for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Jafar Sadeghi , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti

Vector unparticle couplings to standard model fields produce repulsive corrections to gravity. From a general relativistic perspective, this leads to an effective Reissner-Nordstr\"om-like metric whose "charge" is a function of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 J. R. Mureika