Structure of the inner singularity of a spherical black hole

1994/03/10 by A. Bonanno, S. Droz, Serge Droz +3 · 30 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Computer security #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geometry #Gravitational collapse #Mathematics #Naked singularity #Physics #Ring singularity #Singularity #Theoretical physics #White hole #de Sitter–Schwarzschild metric #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.50.7372

published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 50(12), 7372-7375 (American Physical Society) · 5 pages, Latex 5 pages 2 postscript figures,Alberta-Thy-9-94

arxiv created 1994/03/10 · openalex publication_date 1994/12/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We review the evidence for and against the possibility that the inner singularity of a black hole contains a lightlike segment which is locally mild and characterized by mass inflation.

Citations

• Quantum effects in black hole interiors
• Oscillatory approach to a singular point in the relativistic cosmology
• Universality and scaling in gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field
• Late-time behavior of stellar collapse and explosions. I. Linearized perturbations
• Mixmaster Universe

Cited by

• Black hole complementarity with local horizons and Horowitz-Maldacena's proposal