Black hole mass threshold from nonsingular quantum gravitational collapse

M. Bojowald, R. Goswami, Roy Maartens, P. Singh

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Abstract

Quantum gravity is expected to remove the classical singularity that arises as the end state of gravitational collapse. To investigate this, we work with a toy model of a collapsing homogeneous scalar field. We show that nonperturbative semiclassical effects of loop quantum gravity cause a bounce and remove the black hole singularity. Furthermore, we find a critical threshold scale below which no horizon forms: quantum gravity may exclude very small astrophysical black holes
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)091302
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume95
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Aug 2005

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