No black holes from light
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2024-07-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We show that it is not possible to concentrate enough light to precipitate the formation of an event horizon. We argue that the dissipative quantum effects coming from the self-interaction of light (such as vacuum polarization) are enough to prevent any meaningful buildup of energy that could create a black hole in any realistic scenario.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.02389,
title = {No black holes from light},
author = {Álvaro Álvarez-Domínguez and Luis J. Garay and Eduardo Martín-Martínez and José Polo-Gómez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.02389},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
13 pages. RevTeX 4.2. v2: Updated to match published version