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We study physical properties and global structures of a time-dependent, spherically symmetric solution obtained via the dimensional reduction of intersecting M-branes. We find that the spacetime describes a maximally charged black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Kei-ichi Maeda , Masato Nozawa

The stability of cosmological event and Cauchy horizons of spacetimes associated with plane symmetric domain walls are studied. It is found that both horizons are not stable against perturbations of null fluids and massless scalar fields;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Anzhong Wang , Patricio S. Letelier

In a space-time with cosmological constant $\Lambda>0$ and matter satisfying the dominant energy condition, the area of a black or white hole cannot exceed $4\pi/\Lambda$. This applies to event horizons where defined, i.e. in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Sean A. Hayward , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Ken-ichi Nakao

Boundary conditions defining a generic isolated horizon are introduced. They generalize the notion available in the existing literature by allowing the horizon to have distortion and angular momentum. Space-times containing a black hole,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Abhay Ashtekar , Christopher Beetle , Olaf Dreyer , Stephen Fairhurst , Badri Krishnan , Jerzy Lewandowski , Jacek Wisniewski

We describe a midi-superspace quantization scheme for generic single horizon black holes in which only the spatial diffeomorphisms are fixed. The remaining Hamiltonian constraint yields an infinite set of decoupled eigenvalue equations: one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Gegenberg , G. Kunstatter , R. D. Small

We study the deformation of the horizon-vicinity geometry caused by quantum gravitational effects. Departure from the semi-classical picture is noted, and the fact that the matter part of the action comes at a higher order in Newton's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 I. Y. Park

The modified first laws of thermodynamics at the black hole horizon and the cosmological horizon of the Schwarzschild de Sitter black hole and the apparent horizon of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology are derived by the surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-15 Deyou Chen , Xiaoxiong Zeng

In general relativity, a gravitational horizon (more commonly known as the "apparent horizon") is an imaginary surface beyond which all null geodesics recede from the observer. The Universe has an apparent (gravitational) horizon, but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Fulvio Melia

It is known that linearized perturbations of extremal black holes result in growing curvature on the horizon. However, nonlinear perturbations typically do not evolve to extremal black holes and do not have growing curvature at late times.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Gary T. Horowitz , Maciej Kolanowski , Jorge E. Santos

Event horizons are a defining feature of black holes. Consequently, there have been many efforts to probe their existence in astrophysical black hole candidates, spanning ten orders of magnitude in mass. Nevertheless, horizons remain an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-19 Shokoufe Faraji , Avery E. Broderick

We prove that the area of sections of future event horizons in space-times satisfying the null energy condition is non-decreasing towards the future under any one of the following circumstances: 1) the horizon is future geodesically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Piotr T. Chruściel , Erwann Delay , Gregory J. Galloway , Ralph Howard

To ask a question about a black hole in quantum gravity, one must restrict initial or boundary data to ensure that a black hole is actually present. For two-dimensional dilaton gravity, and probably a much wider class of theories as well,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Carlip

Recent observational evidences claim an accelerating expansion of the universe at present epoch. It is commonly incorporated in standard cosmology by the introduction of an exotic matter (that violates the strong energy condition) known as…

General Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Subhajit Saha , Subenoy Chakraborty

In this paper, we investigate the existence and time evolution of the cosmological and event horizons in a McVittie universe whose expansion is driven by the Redlich-Kwong, (Modified) Berthelot, Dieterici, and Peng-Robinson fluids,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Daniele Gregoris , Yen Chin Ong , Bin Wang

For an effective field theory in the background of an evaporating black hole with spherical symmetry, we consider non-renormalizable interactions and their relevance to physical effects. The background geometry is determined by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-03 Pei-Ming Ho , Yuki Yokokura

Hawking has shown that if black holes were to exist in a universe that expands forever, black holes would completely evaporate, violating unitarity. I argue this means unitarity requires that the universe exist for only a finite future…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Frank J. Tipler

We discuss the generalized second law (GSL) and the constraints imposed by it for two types of Friedmann universes. The first one is the Friedmann universe with radiation and a positive cosmological constant, and the second one consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 Titus K Mathew , Aiswarya R , Vidya K Soman

One of the most fundamental features of a black hole in general relativity is its event horizon: a boundary from which nothing can escape. There has been a recent surge of interest in the nature of these event horizons and their local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-11 Niayesh Afshordi , Yasaman K. Yazdi

The particle and event horizons are widely known and studied concepts, but the study of their properties, in particular their evolution, have only been done so far considering a single state equation in a decelerating universe. This paper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-25 Berta Margalef-Bentabol , Juan Margalef-Bentabol , Jordi Cepa

What happens to a unified conscious field when its physical implementation straddles a black hole event horizon? This paper addresses that question for integration-based theories, including Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jonathon Sendall