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Black hole mass threshold from nonsingular quantum gravitational collapse.

Martin Bojowald1, Rituparno Goswami, Roy Maartens

  • 1Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany.

Physical Review Letters
|October 4, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Loop quantum gravity effects cause a bounce, removing the black hole singularity in a collapsing scalar field model. This quantum gravity theory may also prevent the formation of very small black holes by excluding them.

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