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Black-hole thermodynamics and singular solutions of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation

1984; American Physical Society; Volume: 29; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevd.29.628

1538-4500

Wojciech H. Zurek, Don N. Page,

Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect

We investigate thermodynamic equilibrium of a self-gravitating perfect fluid in a spherically symmetric system containing a black hole of mass M by means of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation. At r >> 2M its solutions describe a black-body radiation atmosphere with the Hawking temperature T_BH~1/(8 \pi M) that is increasingly blueshifted as r approaches 2M. However, there is no horizon at the Schwarzschild radius. Instead, the fluid becomes increasingly hot and dense there, piling up into a "firewall" with the peak temperatures and densities reaching Planck values somewhat below r = 2M. This firewall surrounds a negative point mass residing at r=0, the only singularity of the solution. The entropy of the firewall is comparable to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.