Gravitational Collapse and Cosmic Censorship

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current understanding of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, highlighting recent progress in special cases that support the idea that naked singularities are not generic outcomes of gravitational collapse.

Contribution

It summarizes recent advances in specific cases related to the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, emphasizing the lack of a general proof or disproof.

Findings

Recent results support that naked singularities are not generic.

Progress has been made in studying special cases of gravitational collapse.

The conjecture remains unproven in the general case.

Abstract

We review the status of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, which asserts, in essence, that all singularities of gravitational collapse are hidden within black holes. Although little progress has been made toward a general proof (or disproof) of this conjecture, there has been some notable recent progress in the study of some examples and special cases related to the conjecture. These results support the view that naked singularities cannot arise generically.