Princeton University Gravity Initiative Sping Seminar Series

Please note the special start time - 11:30 AM

The group plans to meet in person in the PGI space (Jadwin, 4^th floor), a boxed lunch will be provided in order to accommodate the earlier start time.  There is also a zoom link for those who can’t attend in person.

Abstract: Black holes in the Universe do not exist in isolation but, rather, they are surrounded by matter. It is therefore important to study the stability properties of black holes under matter field perturbations. In this talk we will discuss the stability properties under classical field perturbations of several rotating (Kerr) black hole spacetimes. In particular, we will present recent results on some of the mode stability properties of the following: (i) a maximally-rotating (extremal) Kerr black hole, whose event horizon suffers from an instability; (ii) Kerr-de Sitter spacetime, representing a Kerr black hole in a Universe with accelerated expansion, and so possessing a cosmological horizon as well as an event horizon; and (iii) the inner (Cauchy) horizon of Kerr-Newman-de Sitter spacetime, representing a charged Kerr-de Sitter black hole, where we find evidence for violation of Penrose’s strong Cosmic Censorship conjecture, i.e., evidence for the loss of predictability of the Einstein field equations inside the black hole.