Dynamical Singularity Resolution in Spherically Symmetric Black Hole Formation

Feb, 2009
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 80 (2009) 024032
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study numerically the effects of loop quantum gravity motivated corrections on massless scalar field collapse in Painlev\'e-Gullstrand coordinates. Near criticality, the system exhibits Choptuik scaling with the added features of a mass gap and a new scaling relationship dependant upon the quantum length scale. The quantum corrected collapse exhibits a radiation-like phase which resolves the singularity: the black hole consists of a compact region of space-time bounded by a single, smooth trapping horizon. The 'evaporation' is not complete but leaves behind an outward moving remnant.
  • 04.70.Dy
  • 04.25.dc
  • mass: gap
  • quantum gravity: loop space
  • field theory: scalar
  • singularity
  • black hole
  • collapse
  • correction: quantum
  • mass: scaling