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Dynamical Singularity Resolution in Spherically Symmetric Black Hole Formation

arXiv:0902.3224 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.80.024032

Abstract

We study numerically the effects of loop quantum gravity motivated corrections on massless scalar field collapse in Painlevé-Gullstrand coordinates. Near criticality, the system exhibits Choptuik scaling with the added features of a mass gap and a new scaling relationship dependant upon the quantum length scale. The quantum corrected collapse exhibits a radiation-like phase which resolves the singularity: the black hole consists of a compact region of space-time bounded by a single, smooth trapping horizon. The "evaporation" is not complete but leaves behind an outward moving remnant.

10 pages, 5 figures

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