Evolution of Charged Evaporating Black Holes

Feb 5, 1990
42 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 41 (1990) 1142
Report number:
  • Print-90-0082 (MONTANA STATE)

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Abstract: (APS)
The evaporative evolution of charged nonrotating black holes is studied by numerically integrating a set of coupled differential equations describing the charge and mass as functions of time. We find that large charged black holes will evolve through a region (in the black-hole configuration space) of positive specific heat, undergoing two phase transitions as they evaporate. The region is approximately bounded by 34<(QM)2<1 and M>2.03×107M⊙. Unlike rotating black holes (which always evolve toward the Schwarzschild limit), sufficiently large charged black holes will initially evolve toward the extreme Reissner-Nordström limit; their lifetime may be many orders of magnitude larger than the lifetime of a Schwarzschild black hole with the same initial mass.