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Destroying extremal magnetized black holes

arXiv:1611.01811 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.024016

Abstract

The gedanken experiment by Wald to destroy a black hole using a test particle in the equatorial plane is adopted to the case of extremal magnetized black holes. We find the presence of external magnetic fields resulting from the "Ernst magnetization" permits a test particle to have strong enough energy to destroy the black hole. However, the corresponding effective potentials show that such particles would never reach the horizon.

26 pages, 6 figures; v2: refs added and corrected; v3: more discussions on mass and energy

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