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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Title: Fully extremal black holes: a black hole graveyard?
(Submitted on 13 May 2024 (v1), last revised 23 May 2024 (this version, v2))
Abstract: While the standard point of view is that the ultimate endpoint of black hole evolution is determined by Hawking evaporation, there is a growing evidence that classical and semi-classical instabilities affect both black holes with inner horizons as well as their ultra-compact counterparts. In this essay we start from this evidence pointing towards extremal black holes as stable endpoints of the gravitational collapse, and develop a general class of spherical and axisymmetric solutions with multiple extremal horizons. Excluding more exotic possibilities, entailing regular cores supporting wormhole throats, we argue that these configuration could be the asymptotic graveyard, the end-point, of dynamical black hole evolution -- albeit the timescale of such evolution are still unclear and possibly long and compatible with current astrophysical observations.
Submission history
From: Matt Visser [view email][v1] Mon, 13 May 2024 18:00:02 GMT (20kb)
[v2] Thu, 23 May 2024 23:16:53 GMT (20kb)
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