Merging black hole and cosmological horizons

This thesis investigates the merging of horizons which occurs when a black hole crosses a cosmological horizon. We study the simplest spacetime which has both a black hole and cosmological horizon, namely Schwarzschild-deSitter (SdS) spacetime. First we develop a new coordinate system for SdS spacet...

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Main Author: Prat, Alain
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52470