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Recent researches of the novel $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity have attracted great attention. In this paper, we investigate the validity of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for a novel $4D$ charged EGB black hole with test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-04 Si-Jiang Yang , Jun-Jie Wan , Jing Chen , Jie Yang , Yong-Qiang Wang

It has been shown that a nearly extremal black hole can be overcharged or overspun by a test particle if radiative and self-force effects are neglected, indicating that the cosmic censorship might fail. In contrast, the existing evidence in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-26 Sijie Gao , Yuan Zhang

In recent literature, it has been argued that a mild form of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) is satisfied by wide classes of effective field theories in which higher-derivative corrections can be shown to shift the charge-to-mass ratios…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-06 Lars Aalsma , Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

The new version of the gedanken experiment proposed by Sorce and Wald has been used to examine the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for black holes at the second-order approximation of the matter fields perturbation. However, only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-02 Xin-Yang Wang , Jie Jiang

Based on the new version of the gedanken experiments proposed by Sorce and Wald, we examine the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) under the spherically charged infalling matter collision process in the static charged Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-17 Jie Jiang

The potential conflict between the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) poses a significant challenge in general relativity. The WCCC serves as a fundamental assumption ensuring the coherence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-07 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti , Behnam Pourhassan , İzzet Sakallı

We study the generalization of the gadenken experiment of overcharging an extremal black hole proposed by Wald in the context of a multi black hole solution. In particular, we attempt to overcharge a system of two extremal black holes via…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 Akash K Mishra , Sudipta Sarkar

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in charged anti-de Sitter black holes with thermodynamic pressure and volume by the scattering of the charged scalar field in four and higher dimensions. We assume that the internal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-20 Bogeun Gwak

In this study, we investigate the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) and Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) for a quantum-corrected Reissner-Nordstr\"om Anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole embedded in Kiselev spacetime. By making small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Ankit Anand , Anshul Mishra , Phongpichit Channuie

Apart from the Kerr-Newman black holes, the hairy black holes in general relativity have been widely investigated in the gravity and cosmology. In this paper, we extend the Sorce-Wald method to prove the weak cosmic censorship conjecture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-10 Aofei Sang , Jie Jiang

Motivated by the desire to improve our understanding of the Weak Gravity Conjecture, we compute the one-loop correction of charged particles to the geometry and entropy of extremal black holes in 4d. We find that fermion loops provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-30 William Cottrell , Gary Shiu , Pablo Soler

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

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture for Kerr-Sen black holes, which are solutions to the four-dimensional low-energy effective field theory for the heterotic string theory, based on the scattering of a charged scalar field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-01 Bogeun Gwak

We consider the shift of charge-to-mass ratio for extremal black holes in the context of effective field theory, motivated by the Weak Gravity Conjecture. We constrain extremality corrections in different regimes subject to unitarity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-17 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yu-tin Huang , Jin-Yu Liu , Grant N. Remmen

In this paper, we test the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m-de Sitter (RN-dS) black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter. We consider a spherically symmetric perturbation on deriving linear and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Mubasher Jamil

Since 1970's, gedanken experiments have been devised to challenge the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC), which is the expectation that spacetime singularities will be hidden from faraway observers by event horizons so that classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 İbrahim Semiz , Koray Düztaş

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

In this paper, we explore the intriguing interplay between fundamental theoretical physics concepts within the context of charged black holes. Specifically, we focus on the consistency of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) and weak cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Jafar Sadeghi , Saeed Noori Gashti , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar

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

In this article, we test the validity of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (wCCC) in the background of a quantum Kerr-de Sitter (qKdS) black hole, incorporating exact backreaction from quantum matter fields. Using a test particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Ankit Anand , Ankur Dey