The Marolf-Ori singularity inside fast spinning black holes

Abstract

The effective shock wave singularity at the outgoing leg of the inner horizon of a linearly perturbed fast spinning black hole is studied numerically for either scalar field, or vacuum, gravitational perturbations. We demonstrate the occurrence of the Marolf-Ori singularity, including changes of order unity in the scalar field $\phi$ for the scalar field model, and in the Weyl scalars $\psi_0$ and $\psi_4$ (rescaled appropriately by the horizon function $\Delta$) and the Kretschmann curvature scalar $K$ for the vacuum, gravitational perturbations model for both null and timelike geodesic observers. We quantify the shock sharpening effect and show that in all cases its rate agrees with expectations.