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The weak cosmic censorship conjecture asserts that spacetime singularities that arise in gravitational collapse are always hidden inside of black holes, invisible to distant observers. This conjecture, put forward by Penrose more than four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Shahar Hod

Spacetime singularities that arise in gravitational collapse are always hidden inside of black holes. This is the essence of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. The hypothesis, put forward by Penrose 40 years ago, is still one of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shahar Hod

The weak cosmic censorship conjecture plays a foundational role in classical gravity by asserting that spacetime singularities are generically hidden behind event horizons. In this work, we explore its robustness in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Yan-Qing Xu , Rui-Feng Zheng , Yu-Peng Zhang , Cheng-Yong Zhang

Under spherical symmetry, we show that the weak cosmic censorship holds for the gravitational collapse of the Einstein-Maxwell-charged scalar field system. Namely, for this system, with generic initial data, the formed spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Xinliang An , Hong Kiat Tan

The strong cosmic censorship conjecture, introduced by Penrose five decades ago, asserts that, in self-consistent theories of gravity, Cauchy horizons inside dynamically formed black holes should be unstable to remnant perturbation fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-30 Shahar Hod

The Penrose strong cosmic censorship conjecture asserts that Cauchy horizons inside dynamically formed black holes are unstable to remnant matter fields that fall into the black holes. The physical importance of this conjecture stems from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Shahar Hod

We review the status of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, which asserts, in essence, that all singularities of gravitational collapse are hidden within black holes. Although little progress has been made toward a general proof (or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert M. Wald

Transforming Penrose's intuitive picture of a strong cosmic censorship principle, that generically forbids the appearance of locally naked space-time singularities, into a formal mathematical proof, remains at present, one of the most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Wenceslao Santiago-Germán

The classical Penrose inequality, a relation between the ADM mass and the area of any cross section of the black hole event horizon, was introduced as a test of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture: if it fails, the trapped surface is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Eduardo Hafemann , Eleni-Alexandra Kontou

One of the fundamental unanswered questions in the general theory of relativity is whether ``naked'' singularities, that is singular events which are visible from infinity, may form with positive probability in the process of gravitational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Demetrios Christodoulou

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

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in Kerr-(anti-)de Sitter black holes under the scattering of a scalar field. We test the conjecture in terms of whether the black hole can exceed the extremal condition with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-18 Bogeun Gwak

The weak cosmic censorship conjecture states that the black hole singularity is hidden inside the event horizon of the black hole, making it impossible for an external observer to measure. In this study, we investigate the weak cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-03 Meirong Tang , Lai Zhao , Zhaoyi Xu

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

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

Cosmic censorship is known to fail in some well-controlled phenomena, calling into question the predictive power of General Relativity and opening up the possibility of observing Planck-scale physics. We propose that the cosmic censorship…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-07 Roberto Emparan

The formation of black holes or naked singularities is studied in a model in which a homogeneous time-dependent scalar field with an exponential potential couples to four dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant. An analytic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-10 R. Baier , Hiromichi Nishimura , S. A. Stricker

According to the cosmic censorship hypothesis of Penrose, naked singularities should never occur in realistic collapse situations. One of the major open problems in this context is the existence of a naked singularity in the Kerr solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Rudnicki

We construct here a class of collapsing scalar field models with a non-zero potential, which result in a naked singularity as collapse end state. The weak energy condition is satisfied by the collapsing configuration. It is shown that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rituparno Goswami , Pankaj S Joshi

We investigate weak cosmic censorship conjecture in charged torus-like black hole by the complex scalar field scattering. Using the relation between the conserved quantities of a black hole and the scalar field, we can calculate the change…

General Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Wei Hong , Berong Mu , Jun Tao
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