Comment on "No Black Holes from Light" [arXiv:2405.02389]

Abraham Loeb (Harvard)

Comment on "No Black Holes from Light" [arXiv:2405.02389]

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We show that black holes can be made of light by adding gravity to the discussion of Alvarez-Dominguez et al., arXiv:2405.02389 [PRL 130, 041401 (2024)].

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Counter-propagating, antiparallel-polarized plane-wave pulses can, in an idealized theoretical scenario, collapse into black holes near the Planck scale before Schwinger pair production dissipates the energy.

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