TY - JOUR
T1 - Mass inflation in dynamical gravitational collapse of a charged scalar field
AU - Hod, Shahar
AU - Piran, Tsvi
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - During the last ten years evidence has been mounting that generically the Cauchy horizon inside a charged or a spinning black hole becomes a null, weak singularity which is a precursor of a strong, spacelike singularity along the r=0 hypersurface. We present here the missing link in this picture: A complete calculation from a regular initial data to the formation of a black hole and its inner singularities. We follow the gravitational collapse of a self-gravitating charged massless scalar field and observe the formation of an apparent horizon, a null, weak, mass-inflation singularity along the Cauchy horizon, and a final, spacelike, central singularity.
AB - During the last ten years evidence has been mounting that generically the Cauchy horizon inside a charged or a spinning black hole becomes a null, weak singularity which is a precursor of a strong, spacelike singularity along the r=0 hypersurface. We present here the missing link in this picture: A complete calculation from a regular initial data to the formation of a black hole and its inner singularities. We follow the gravitational collapse of a self-gravitating charged massless scalar field and observe the formation of an apparent horizon, a null, weak, mass-inflation singularity along the Cauchy horizon, and a final, spacelike, central singularity.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1554
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1554
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AN - SCOPUS:4243199505
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 81
SP - 1554
EP - 1557
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 8
ER -