On the question of trapped surfaces and black holes

Details On the question of trapped surfaces and black holes On the question of trapped surfaces and black holes

2001-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0105532v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Invited Talk given in a Workshop on Black Holes, Calcutta, Organized by Centre for Space Physics, 11 pages, amitra@apsara.barc

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There are many observational evidences for the detection of compact objects with masses significantly larger (in galactic cases) or much larger (in extragalactic cases) than the upper limits of masses of em cold Neutron Stars. Such compact objects are commonly interpreted as Black Holes (BHs). However, we point out that while such Black Hole Candidates (BHCs) must be similar to BHs in many respects they, actually, can not be BHs because existence of Black Holes would violate the basic tenet of the General Theory of Relativity that the worldline of a material particle must be TIMELIKE at any regular region of spacetime. We arrive at this unique conclusion by approaching the problem from various directions. We feel that such ``operational'' Black Holes could be able to explain hard X-ray tail found in the galactic BHCs because Lorentz factor of the plasma accreting on such objects should be considerably higher than the corresponding NS case.

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