Eur. Phys. J. C (2024) 84: 497
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12837-z

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Testing the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in short haired black holes

College of Physics, Guizhou University, 550025, Guiyang, China

^c zyxu@gzu.edu.cn

Received: 26 February 2024
Accepted: 21 April 2024
Published online: 14 May 2024

Abstract

The weak cosmic censorship conjecture is a hypothesis about the nature of event horizons and singularities during the formation of black holes. It posits that singularities are always enveloped by the event horizons of black holes, thereby preventing naked singularities from affecting the causal structure of spacetime. In this paper, we study the effect of rotating short haired black holes on the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. Discussion of whether the event horizons of a rotating short haired black hole is disrupted by studying incident neutral test particles and scalar fields. In the context of short haired black holes, when incident neutral test particles are considered for extreme and near extreme cases, our research results indicate that neutral test particles can destroy the event horizons of short haired black holes, violating the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. In the case of scalar field incidence in short haired black holes, for extreme situations, when the incident wave modes fall within the range of $\frac{1}{2\kappa M+\frac{\beta }{M\kappa }}<\frac{\omega }{m}<\frac{1}{2M\kappa +\frac{\beta }{M\kappa }-\frac{1}{2\kappa }},$ the results indicate that the event horizons of rotating short haired black holes is disrupted. For near extreme cases, the presence of hair allows for the disruption of the event horizons of rotating short haired black holes, as indicated by our results. Therefore, these conclusions are intriguing and will provide new insights for us to further understand the weak cosmic censorship conjecture and explore the properties of short haired black holes.