Very Thin Black Ring (VIDEO)

University of Cambridge

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This is a video of a very thin black ring. Now, there is clear evidence of the black ring starting to break up into little droplets. In this process a naked singularity is created and weak cosmic censorship is violated.

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Pau Figueras, Markus Kunesch, and Saran Tunyasuvunakool

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