The dangers of extremes

DOI10.1007/S10714-010-1027-ZMaRDI QIDQ711673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Donald Marolf

Publication date 27 October 2010

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2999

zbMATH Keywords

extreme black holes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: While extreme black hole spacetimes with smooth horizons are known at the level of mathematics, we argue that the horizons of physical extreme black holes are effectively singular. Test particles encounter a singularity the moment they cross the horizon, and only objects with significant back-reaction can fall across a smooth (now non-extreme) horizon. As a result, classical interior solutions for extreme black holes are theoretical fictions that need not be reproduced by any quantum mechanical model. This observation suggests that significant quantum effects might be visible outside extreme or nearly extreme black holes. It also suggests that the microphysics of such black holes may be very different from that of their Schwarzschild cousins.

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