2008

Weak Cosmic Censorship: As Strong as Ever

Hod, Shahar

Understand

Spacetime singularities that arise in gravitational collapse are always hidden inside of black holes.

This is the essence of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture.
The hypothesis, put forward by Penrose 40 years ago, is still one of the most important open questions in general relativity.
In this Letter, we reanalyze extreme situations which have been considered as counterexamples to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture.

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