Inside astronomically realistic black holes

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The singularity of a spherical (Schwarzschild) black hole is a surface, not a point. A freely-falling, non-rotating observer sees Hawking radiation with energy density diverging with radius as $\rho \propto r^{-6}$ near the Schwarzschild singular surface. Spacetime inside a rotating (Kerr) black hole terminates at the inner horizon because of the Poisson-Israel mass inflation instability. If the black hole is accreting, as all realistic black holes do, then generically inflation gives way to Belinski-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz oscillatory collapse to a strong, spacelike singular surface.

Year of Conference
2019
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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Date Published
2019-01
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https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Inside-astronomically-realistic-black-holes-Hamilton/abca3ced45ecc4acf616144c4d045faae003c2f1
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