Naked and thunderbolt singularities in black hole evaporation

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(93)90410-QMaRDI QIDQ1966049zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors S. W. Hawking, John M. Stewart

Publication date 5 March 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9207105

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: If an evaporating black hole does not settle down to a non radiating remnant, a description by a semi classical Lorentz metric must contain either a naked singularity or what we call a thunderbolt, a singularity that spreads out to infinity on a spacelike or null path. We investigate this question in the context of various two dimensional models that have been proposed. We find that if the semi classical equations have an extra symmetry that make them solvable in closed form, they seem to predict naked singularities but numerical calculations indicate that more general semi classical equations, such as the original CGHS ones give rise to thunderbolts. We therefore expect that the semi classical approximation in four dimensions will lead to thunderbolts. We interpret the prediction of thunderbolts as indicating that the semi classical approximation breaks down at the end point of black hole evaporation, and we would expect that a full quantum treatment would replace the thunderbolt with a burst of high energy particles. The energy in such a burst would be too small to account for the observed gamma ray bursts.

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