Cosmic Censorship: A Current Perspective

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current state of the cosmic censorship conjecture, emphasizing the importance of analyzing the stability and genericity of collapse models that could lead to naked singularities instead of black holes.

Contribution

It highlights the significance of studying the stability and genericity of gravitational collapse models to better understand the cosmic censorship conjecture.

Findings

Stability analysis of collapse models is crucial for understanding censorship.

Certain collapse scenarios may lead to naked singularities from regular initial data.

Physical constraints can influence the outcomes of gravitational collapse.

Abstract

End state of gravitational collapse and the related cosmic censorship conjecture continue to be amongst the most important open problems in gravitation physics today. My purpose here is to bring out several aspects related to gravitational collapse and censorship, which may help towards a better understanding of the issues involved. Possible physical constraints on gravitational collapse scenarios are considered. It is concluded that the best hope for censorship lies in analyzing the genericity and stability properties of the currently known classes of collapse models which lead to the formation of naked singularities, rather than black holes, as the final state of collapse and which develop from a regular initial data.