Pair Production of Black Holes on Cosmic Strings

1995/06/27 by S. W. Hawking, Simon F. Ross · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic string #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Instanton #Pair production #Particle physics #Physics #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #String (physics) #Theoretical physics #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.75.3382

published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 75 (1995) 3382-3385 · 9 pages, Latex, no figures. Major revision: we have retracted our argument that splitting of topologically stable strings is impossible

arxiv created 1995/06/27 · openalex publication_date 1995/11/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We discuss the pair creation of black holes by the breaking of a cosmic string. We obtain an instanton describing this process from the C metric, and calculate its probability. This is very low for the strings that have been suggested for galaxy formation.

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