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Résumé |
Black holes with sufficiently large initial charge and mass will Hawking-evaporate towards the extremal limit. The emission slows as the temperature approaches zero, but still reaches the point where a single Hawking quantum would make the object superextremal, removing the horizon. We take this semiclassical prediction at face value and ask: When the emission occurs, what is revealed? Using a simple thin-shell model for the matter originally forming the black hole, we find that this matter *re-emerges* after the horizon is removed and subsequently expands back to large radius. This expanding remnant has been bathed in the ingoing Hawking quanta during evaporation and presumably carries correlations with the outgoing quanta, offering the attractive possibility of studying information paradox issues in a setup where spacetime curvatures are globally small, so that quantum gravity is not required. |
