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We initiate the mathematical study of spherical collapse of self-gravitating charged scalar fields. The main result gives a complete characterization of the future boundary of spacetime, providing a starting point for studying the cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Jonathan Kommemi

We investigate the possibility of cosmic censorship violation in string theory using a characteristic double-null code, which penetrates horizons and is capable of resolving the spacetime all the way to the singularity. We perform…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Andrei V. Frolov

We prove the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in $2+1$ spacetime dimensions for the circularly symmetric Einstein-scalar field system in the presence of a negative cosmological constant $\Lambda<0$. More precisely, we show that for any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Serban Cicortas

Roughly speaking, naked singularities are singularities that may be seen by timelike observers. The Cosmic Censorship conjecture forbids their existence by stating that a reasonable system of energy will not, under reasonable conditions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Cenalo Vaz , Louis Witten

Recent study in [1] discovered that introducing a massive charged scalar field and requiring the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to hold can eliminate a class of Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) counterexamples in anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Si-Yuan Cui , Yong-Qiang Wang

We show explicitly, for different types of extremal black holes, that test fields satisfying the null energy condition at the event horizon cannot violate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. This is done by checking, in each case, that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-22 Jéssica Gonçalves , José Natário

In the wake of major breakthroughs in General Relativity during the 1960s, Roger Penrose introduced Strong Cosmic Censorship, a profound conjecture regarding the deterministic nature of the theory. Penrose's proposal has since opened…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Maxime Van de Moortel

We study singularities which can form in a spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a general matter field obeying weak energy condition. We show that no energy can reach an outside observer from a null naked singularity. That means…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-17 Shrirang S. Deshingkar

A satisfactory formulation of the laws of physics entails that the future evolution of a physical system should be determined from appropriate initial conditions. The existence of Cauchy horizons in solutions of the Einstein field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Raimon Luna , Miguel Zilhão , Vitor Cardoso , João L. Costa , José Natário

We study collisions of boosted rotating black holes in $D=6$ and 7 spacetime dimensions with a non-zero impact parameter. We find that there exists an open set of initial conditions such that the intermediate state of the collision is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-30 Tomas Andrade , Pau Figueras , Ulrich Sperhake

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

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 first calculate equations of motion for particles in the Kerr-Sen-de Sitter black hole spacetime. Then in the eikonal regime, we analytically obtain the quasi-normal resonant modes of massless neutral scalar field perturbation and find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Ming Zhang , Jie Jiang

Published in 1999, Christodoulou proved that the naked singularities of a self-gravitating scalar field are not stable in spherical symmetry and therefore the cosmic censorship conjecture is true in this context. The original proof is by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-04 Jue Liu , Junbin Li

It was recently shown that Strong Cosmic Censorship may be violated in highly charged black-hole spacetimes living in a universe with a positive cosmological constant. Several follow-up works have since suggested that such result, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Vitor Cardoso , Joao L. Costa , Kyriakos Destounis , Peter Hintz , Aron Jansen

The weak cosmic censorship conjecture in the near-extremal BTZ black hole has been tested by the test particles and fields. It was claimed that this black hole could be overspun. In this paper, we review the thermodynamics and weak cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-11 Deyou Chen

It has been argued that the strong cosmic censorship conjecture is violated by Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter black holes: for near-extremal black holes, generic scalar field perturbations arising from smooth initial data have finite energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Oscar J. C. Dias , Harvey S. Reall , Jorge E. Santos

The Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (CCC) states that every singularity (except the cosmological one) must appear "dressed" in the universe. This statement was introduced by Roger Penrose (Penrose, 1969), meaning that every singularity (except…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Rodrigo L. Fernandez

Jacobson and Sotiriou showed that rotating black holes could be spun-up past the extremal limit by the capture of non-spinning test bodies, if one neglects radiative and self-force effects. This would represent a violation of the Cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-28 Enrico Barausse , Vitor Cardoso , Gaurav Khanna

We present results of a comprehensive study of collapsing and bouncing thin shells with rotation, framing it in the context of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. The analysis is based on a formalism developed specifically for higher odd…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Jorge V. Rocha , Raphael Santarelli