PIRSA:26030073

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https://pirsa.org/26030073

Dressing up naked singularities

Tomašević, M. (2026). Dressing up naked singularities. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/26030073

Tomašević, Marija. Dressing up naked singularities. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Mar. 05, 2026, https://pirsa.org/26030073 

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:26030073,
            doi = {10.48660/26030073},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/26030073},
            author = {Toma{\v{s}}evi{\'c}, Marija},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Dressing up naked singularities},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2026},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:26030073 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/26030073}}
          }

Marija Tomašević University of Amsterdam

Talk numberPIRSA:26030073
DOI10.48660/26030073
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Small naked singularities—those not shielded by a macroscopic event horizon—are ubiquitous in classical General Relativity. Their existence constitutes apparent violations of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, which asserts that physically reasonable solutions should appear regular to asymptotic observers. In this talk, we will show how the inclusion of stringy and quantum effects resolves these pathologies by uplifting naked singularities into fully regular configurations. Focusing on critical gravitational collapse as a concrete example, we demonstrate that a proper quantum treatment replaces naked singularity formation with black hole formation. This suggests that cosmic censorship is not fundamentally a property of classical General Relativity, but rather emerges only once quantum gravitational effects are taken into account.