Inside an evaporating two-dimensional charged black hole

Abstract

We investigate the inner structure of an evaporating charged black hole, within the context of semiclassical dilaton gravity in two dimensions. The matter fields are charged, allowing the evaporation of both the mass and charge of the black hole. We find that the semiclassical effects cause the inner horizon to expand (by a finite factor), rather than to shrink to a point singularity. Although this expansion is a quantum phenomenon, the overall expansion factor is found to be independent of the magnitude of the quantum terms in the effective theory.