Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1996-08-02
Grav.Cosmol.Suppl.4:28-37,1998
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
14 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure; contribution to the proceedings of COSMION 96
Scientific paper
In the inflationary era, black holes came into existence together with the universe through the quantum process of pair creation. We calculate the pair creation rate from the no boundary proposal for the wave function of the universe. Our results are physically sensible and fit in with other descriptions of pair creation. The tunnelling proposal, on the other hand, predicts a catastrophic instability of de Sitter space to the nucleation of large black holes, and cannot be maintained.
Bousso Raphael
Hawking Stephen W.
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