Tunneling into microstate geometries: quantum effects stop gravitational collapse
Tunneling into microstate geometries: quantum effects stop gravitational collapse
Collapsing shells form horizons, and when the curvature is small classical general relativity is believed to describe this process arbitrarily well. On the other hand, quantum information theory based (fuzzball/firewall) arguments suggest the existence of some structure at the black hole horizon. This structure can only form if classical general …