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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 74, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2983-3
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- NSFC [11305038]
- Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission [1472,001]
- Thousand Young Talents Program
- Fudan University
- NSFC [11305038]
- Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission [1472,001]
- Thousand Young Talents Program
- Fudan University
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In general relativity, gravitational collapse of matter fields ends with the formation of a spacetime singularity, where the matter density becomes infinite and standard physics breaks down. According to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, singularities produced in the gravitational collapse cannot be seen by distant observers and must be hidden within black holes. The validity of this conjecture is still controversial and at present we cannot exclude that naked singularities can be created in our Universe from regular initial data. In this paper, we study the radiation emitted by a collapsing cloud of dust and check whether it is possible to distinguish the birth of a black hole from the one of a naked singularity. In our simple dust model, we find that the properties of the radiation emitted in the two scenarios is qualitatively similar. That suggests that observational tests of the cosmic censorship conjecture may be very difficult, even in principle.
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