Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: It is shown that a nonrotating macroscopic black hole with very large horizon area can remain in stable thermal equilibrium with Hawking radiation provided its mass, as a function of horizon area, exceeds its microcanonical entropy, i.e., its entropy when isolated, without thermal radiation or accretion, and having a constant horizon area (in appropriate units). The analysis does not use properties of specific classical spacetimes, but depends only on the plausible assumption that the mass is a function of the horizon area for large areas.
Authors: Ashok Chatterjee, Parthasarathi Majumdar
Institution: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2112876227