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This article presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of spacetime singularities within the framework of classical General Relativity. Singularities are defined through the failure of geodesic completeness, reflecting the limits of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Jean-Pierre Luminet

The composition as well as the very existence of the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) remains at the forefront of open problems in fundamental physics. To address this issue, we turn to Hawking's "principle of ignorance", which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Ram Brustein , A. J. M. Medved

In a paper \cite{P} in 1973, R. Penrose made a physical argument that the total mass of a spacetime which contains black holes with event horizons of total area $A$ should be at least $\sqrt{A/16\pi}$. An important special case of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hubert L. Bray

A Penrose diagram is constructed for a spatially coherent black hole that accretes at stepwise steady rates as measured by a distant observer from an initial state described by a metric of Minkowski form. Coordinate lines are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-09 Beth A. Brown , James Lindesay

This paper investigates the metric of previously proposed regular black holes, calculates their effective potentials, and plots the curves of the effective potentials. By determining the conserved quantities, the dynamical equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Zihan Xi , Chen Wu , Wenjun Guo

Working in a semi-classical setting, we consider solutions of the Einstein equations that exhibit light trapping in finite time according to distant observers. In spherical symmetry, we construct near-horizon quantities from the assumption…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Pravin K. Dahal , Fil Simovic , Ioannis Soranidis , Daniel R. Terno

Recently it was demonstrated that by adding to the Einstein-Hilbert action a series in powers of the curvature invariants with specially chosen coefficients one can obtain a theory of gravity which has spherically symmetric solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Valeri P. Frolov , Alex Koek , Jose Pinedo Soto , Andrei Zelnikov

The theory of perturbations of spherically symmetric self-similar black holes is presented, in the Newman-Penrose formalism. It is shown that the wave equations for gravitational, electromagnetic, and scalar waves are separable, though not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-06-25 A. J. S. Hamilton

It is widely believed that the curvature singularities are an artifact of general relativity and may not exist in the Universe, and likely to be defined by the quantum gravity. In the absence of successful quantum gravity, significant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Fazlay Ahmed , Dharm Veer Singh , Sushant G Ghosh

In this work two new families of non-singular or regular black hole solutions are displayed. These black holes behave as de Sitter space near its center and have a well defined AdS asymptotic region for negative cosmological constant. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Rodrigo Aros , Milko Estrada

In this paper, we study rigidity aspects of Penrose's singularity theorem. Specifically, we aim to answer the following question: if a spacetime satisfies the hypotheses of Penrose's singularity theorem except with weakly trapped surfaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Gregory J. Galloway , Eric Ling

We analyze the singularities of the two-point function in a conformal field theory at finite temperature. In a free theory, the only singularity is along the boundary light cone. In the holographic limit, a new class of singularities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Matthew Dodelson , Hirosi Ooguri

A straightforward generalization of the celebrated uniqueness theorem to dimensions greater than four was recently found to fail in two pure gravity cases - the 5d rotating black ring and the black string on R^{3,1} * S^1. Two amendments…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Barak Kol

Regular black holes are often geodesically incomplete when their extensions to negative values of the radial coordinate are considered. Here, we propose to use the Simpson-Visser method of regularising a singular spacetime, and apply it to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

The construction of a generic parametrization of spinning geometries which can be matched continuously to the Kerr metric is an important open problem in General Relativity. Its resolution is more than of academic interest, as it allows to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-30 Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani , Joao Rico

The uniqueness and rigidity theorems assert that the asymptotically flat, vacuum, stationary rotating black hole solution in general relativity must be the Kerr solution, exhibiting novel symmetries such as axisymmetry and circularity. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-13 Rajes Ghosh , Akash K Mishra , Sudipta Sarkar

A theorem, giving necessary and sufficient condition for naked singularity formation in spherically symmetric non static spacetimes under hypotheses of physical acceptability, is formulated and proved. The theorem relates existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Roberto Giambo' , Fabio Giannoni , Giulio Magli , Paolo Piccione

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the study of regular black holes, driven by the search for singularity-free geometries. This research has revealed intriguing similarities between the regularization mechanisms used in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-27 L. C. N. Santos

The divergence of curvature invariants at a given point signals the impossibility of extending the spacetime to that point, with the derivative order of these diverging invariants determining the differentiability class of the considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Tommaso Antonelli , Marco Sebastianutti

We extend the validity of the Penrose singularity theorem to spacetime metrics of regularity $C^{1,1}$. The proof is based on regularisation techniques, combined with recent results in low regularity causality theory.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-15 Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer , James A. Vickers