Hawking radiation may violate the Penrose cosmic censorship conjecture
arXiv:2102.05519 · doi:10.1142/S0218271819440231
Abstract
We analyze the Hawking evaporation process of Reissner-Nordström black holes. It is shown that the characteristic radiation quanta emitted by the charged black holes may turn near-extremal black-hole spacetimes into horizonless naked singularities. The present analysis therefore reveals the intriguing possibility that the semi-classical Hawking evaporation process of black holes may violate the fundamental Penrose cosmic censorship conjecture.
5 pages. This essay received an Honorable Mention from the Gravity Research Foundation 2019