Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1992-07-30
Nucl.Phys.B400:393-415,1993
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
21 pages (10 diagrams available on request)
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(93)90410-Q
If an evaporating black hole does not settle down to a non radiating remnant, a description by a semi classical Lorentz metric must contain either a naked singularity or what we call a thunderbolt, a singularity that spreads out to infinity on a spacelike or null path. We investigate this question in the context of various two dimensional models that have been proposed. We find that if the semi classical equations have an extra symmetry that make them solvable in closed form, they seem to predict naked singularities but numerical calculations indicate that more general semi classical equations, such as the original CGHS ones give rise to thunderbolts. We therefore expect that the semi classical approximation in four dimensions will lead to thunderbolts. We interpret the prediction of thunderbolts as indicating that the semi classical approximation breaks down at the end point of black hole evaporation, and we would expect that a full quantum treatment would replace the thunderbolt with a burst of high energy particles. The energy in such a burst would be too small to account for the observed gamma ray bursts.
Hawking Stephen W.
Stewart John M.
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