The `Ups' and `Downs' of a Spinning Black Hole

Details The `Ups' and `Downs' of a Spinning Black Hole The `Ups' and `Downs' of a Spinning Black Hole

1997-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9710013v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

3 pages (including 3 postscript figures), Latex. Uses mprocl.sty (included). To appear in the proceedings of `The Eighth Marce

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We report and comment upon the principal results of an investigation into the evolution of rotating black holes emitting massless scalar radiation via the Hawking process. It is demonstrated that a Kerr black hole evaporating by the emission of scalar radiation will evolve towards a state with $a \approx 0.555M$. If the initial specific angular momentum is larger than this value the hole will spin down to this value; if it is less it will spin up to this value. The addition of higher spin fields to the picture strongly suggests the final asymptotic state of a realistic evaporation process will be characterized by an $a/M = 0$.

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