The Life and Times of Extremal Black Holes
arXiv:gr-qc/0006062 · doi:10.1023/A:1001907827388
Abstract
Charged extremal black holes cannot fully evaporate through the Hawking effect and are thus long lived. Over their lifetimes, these black holes take part in a variety of astrophysical processes, including many that lead to their eventual destruction. This paper explores the various events that shape the life of extremal black holes and calculates the corresponding time scales.
9 pages, LaTeX, accepted to General Relativity and Gravitation