Abstract
Black holes harbor a spacetime singularity of infinite curvature, where classical spacetime physics breaks down, and current theory cannot predict what wil l happen. However, the singularity is invisible from the outside because strong gravity traps al l signals, even light, behind an event horizon. In this essay we discuss whether it might be possible to destroy the horizon, if a body is tossed into the black hole so as to make it spin faster and/or have more charge than a certain limit. It turns out that one could expose a “naked” singularity if effects of the body’s own gravity can be neglected. We suspect however that such neglect is unjustified.
Ted Jacobson