The End of a Black Hole's Evaporation -- Part I

TL;DR

This paper investigates the final stages of black hole evaporation, focusing on the quantum gravity effects at the horizon, and introduces a new method to analyze this poorly understood region.

Contribution

It characterizes the physics at the end of black hole evaporation and proposes a novel technique for studying the quantum gravity effects in this regime.

Findings

Identification of the physical nature of the black hole horizon during evaporation

Development of a new analytical technique for quantum gravity regions

Insights into the end-stage behavior of black hole evaporation

Abstract

At the end of Hawking evaporation, the horizon of a black hole enters a physical region where quantum gravity cannot be neglected. The physics of this region has not been much explored. We characterise its physics and introduce a technique to study it.