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Radial fall of a test particle onto an evaporating black hole

Aste, A. and Trautmann, D.. (2005) Radial fall of a test particle onto an evaporating black hole. Canadian Journal of Physics, 83 (10). pp. 1001-1006.

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Abstract

A test particle falling onto a classical black hole crosses the event horizon and ends up in the singularity within finite eigentime. In the "more realistic" case of a "classical" evaporating black hole, an observer falling onto a black hole observes a sudden evaporation of the hole. This illustrates the fact that the discussion of the classical process, commonly found in the literature, may become obsolete when the black hole has a finite lifetime. The situation is basically the same for more complex cases, for example, where a particle collides with two merging black holes. It should be pointed out that the model used in this paper is mainly of academic interest, since the description of the physics near a black-hole horizon still presents a difficult problem that is not yet fully understood, but our model provides a valuable possibility for students to enter the interesting field of black-hole physics and to perform numerical calculations of their own that are not very involved from the computational point of view.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Physik > Former Organization Units Physics > Atomphysik (Trautmann)
UniBasel Contributors:Aste, Andreas W
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Canadian Science Publishing
ISSN:0008-4204
e-ISSN:1208-6045
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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