Abstract
We discuss the pair creation of black holes by the breaking of a cosmic string. We obtain an instanton describing this process from the metric, and calculate its probability. This is very low for the strings that have been suggested for galaxy formation.
- Received 14 June 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.3382
©1995 American Physical Society
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The Work of Stephen Hawking in Physical Review
To mark the passing of Stephen Hawking, we gathered together his 55 papers in Physical Review D and Physical Review Letters. They probe the edges of space and time, from "Black holes and thermodynamics” to "Wave function of the Universe."
