End Point of the Ultraspinning Instability and Violation of Cosmic Censorship

Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Apr 14;118(15):151103. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.151103. Epub 2017 Apr 11.

Abstract

We determine the end point of the axisymmetric ultraspinning instability of asymptotically flat Myers-Perry black holes in D=6 spacetime dimensions. In the nonlinear regime, this instability gives rise to a sequence of concentric rings connected by segments of black membrane on the rotation plane. The latter become thinner over time, resulting in the formation of a naked singularity in finite asymptotic time and hence a violation of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in asymptotically flat higher-dimensional spaces.