Abstract
It is shown that no continuous process in which the energy tensor of accreted matter remains bounded and satisfies the weak energy condition in a neighborhood of the apparent horizon can reduce the surface gravity of a black hole to zero within a finite advanced time. This gives a precise expression to the third law of black-hole mechanics.
- Received 19 May 1986
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.397
©1986 American Physical Society
