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We examine a nearly extreme macroscopic Reissner-Nordstrom black hole in the context of semi-classical gravity. The absorption rate associated with the quantum tunneling process of scalar particles whereby this black hole can acquire enough…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 George E. A. Matsas , André R. R. da Silva

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

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

Hawking radiation acts as a cosmic censor since it carries away the angular momentum of the black hole, proportionally more than its mass. In this work we first show that an extremal black hole cannot exist since it will be pushed away from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-24 Koray Düztaş , İbrahim Semiz

A thought experiment considered recently in the literature, in which it is investigated whether a dyonic Kerr-Newman black hole can be destroyed by overcharging or overspinning it past extremality by a massive complex scalar test field, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-13 Gabor Zsolt Toth

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 consider gedanken experiments to destroy Kerr black holes by means of absorbing matter with sufficient energy and angular momentum. It is shown that extremal and near-extremal Kerr black holes cannot be destroyed in a process that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Ivan R. Vasquez

Accelerating black holes have been widely studied in the context of black hole thermodynamics, holographic gravity theories, and in the description of black holes at the center of galaxies. As a fundamental assumption to ensure spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Jie Jiang , Ming Zhang

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

Recent work indicates that the strong cosmic censorship hypothesis is violated by nearly extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black holes. It was argued that perturbations of such a black hole decay sufficiently rapidly that the perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Oscar J. C. Dias , Felicity C. Eperon , Harvey S. Reall , Jorge E. Santos

Motivated by the recent attempts to violate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for near-extreme black-holes, we consider the possibility of overcharging a near-extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole by the quantum tunneling of charged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-15 Maurício Richartz , Alberto Saa

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

Evidences have been found that the weak cosmic censorship conjecture could be violated if test particles with charge and angular momentum are injected into a black hole. However, second-order corrections and fine-tunings on the particle's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Chengcheng Liu , Sijie Gao

We compute the electromagnetic self-force acting on a charged particle held in place at a fixed position r outside a five-dimensional black hole described by the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini metric. Using a spherical-harmonic decomposition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Matthew J. S. Beach , Eric Poisson , Bernhard G. Nickel

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 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

A classical thought-experiment to destroy black holes was envisaged by Wald in 1974: it consists of throwing particles with large angular momentum into an extremal black hole, checking whether their capture can over-spin the black hole past…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-07 Enrico Barausse , Vitor Cardoso , Gaurav Khanna

We prove that (possibly charged) test fields satisfying the null energy condition at the event horizon cannot overspin/overcharge extremal Kerr-Newman or Kerr-Newman-anti de Sitter black holes, that is, the weak cosmic censorship conjecture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-30 Jose Natario , Leonel Queimada , Rodrigo Vicente

The new version of the gedanken experiments proposed by Sorce and Wald are designed to test the validity of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) by overspinning or overcharging the Kerr-Newman black hole in Einstein-Maxwell gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-27 Zhen Li , Yunjiao Gao , Xiao-Kan Guo

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