Pair Production of Black Holes on Cosmic Strings
- 6 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 75 (19), 3382-3385
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.3382
Abstract
We discuss the pair creation of black holes by the breaking of a cosmic string. We obtain an instanton describing this process from the metric, and calculate its probability. This is very low for the strings that have been suggested for galaxy formation.
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