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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 investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture by analyzing the dynamics of spinning timelike particles dropped along the rotational axis of an extremal Kerr (anti)de Sitter black hole. This idea was first considered in a seminal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Antonia M. Frassino , Jorge V. Rocha , Andrea P. Sanna

We present a plausible counterexample to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in the four-dimensional Einstein-Scalar theory with asymptotically flat boundary conditions. Our setup stems from the analysis of the massive Klein-Gordon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Felicity C. Eperon , Bogdan Ganchev , Jorge E. Santos

Recently, Sorce and Wald have suggested a new version of the gedanken experiments to overspin or overcharge the Kerr-Newman black holes in Einstein-Maxwell gravity. Following their setup, in this paper, we investigate the weak cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-03 Yan-Li He , Jie Jiang

We consider (four dimensional) gravity coupled to a scalar field with potential V(\phi). The potential satisfies the positive energy theorem for solutions that asymptotically tend to a negative local minimum. We show that for a large class…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Hertog , Gary T. Horowitz , Kengo Maeda

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

Weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) is a basic principle that guarantees the predictability of spacetime and should be valid in any classical theories. One critical scientific question is whether the WCCC can serve as a constraint to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-05 Jie Jiang , Aofei Sang , Ming Zhang

Gravitational collapse is one of the most striking phenomena in gravitational physics. The cosmic censorship conjecture has provided strong motivation for researches in this field. In the absence of general proof for the censorship, many…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Tomohiro Harada

In general relativity, gravitational collapse of matter fields ends with the formation of a spacetime singularity, where the matter density becomes infinite and standard physics breaks down. According to the weak cosmic censorship…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-05 Lingyao Kong , Daniele Malafarina , Cosimo Bambi

By neglecting the effects of self-force and radiation, we investigate the possibility of destroying the Kerr-MOG black hole through the point particle absorption process. Using the instability of event horizon and equation of particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Bin Liang , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in Myers-Perry black holes with arbitrary rotations in general dimensions based on the scattering of a massless scalar field. From the fluxes of the scalar field flowing into the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-28 Bogeun Gwak

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

We numerically construct the stationary solutions of $SU(2)$ Einstein-Yang-Mills theory in four dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. When the $t$ component of $SU(2)$ gauge field is taken to the only nonzero component, we construct a class…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Yan Song , Si-Yuan Cui , Yong-Qiang Wang

We check the weak cosmic censorship conjecture by attempting to overspin the Kerr-Newman-Kasuya black hole with test particle. The study suggests that the Kerr-Newman-Kasuya black hole can be over-spun showing the violation of cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Ayyesha K. Ahmed , Azad A. Siddiqui

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 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

This article gives an elementary review of gravitational collapse and the cosmic censorship hypothesis. Known models of collapse resulting in the formation of black holes and naked singularities are summarized. These models, when taken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. Singh

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

The strong cosmic censorship conjecture, whose validation asserts the deterministic nature of general relativity, has been studied for charged BTZ black holes in three dimensional general relativity, as well as for Nth order pure Lovelock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Chiranjeeb Singha , Sumanta Chakraborty , Naresh Dadhich

It has recently been shown that the strong cosmic censorship conjecture can be violated by the massless neutral scalar field in the nearly extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black hole. However, the formation of such a black hole by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Yuyu Mo , Yu Tian , Bin Wang , Hongbao Zhang , Zhen Zhong