%0 Journal Article
%T Quantum Origin of the Event Horizon
%A Miguel Socolovsky
%J Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology
%P 224-229
%@ 2380-4335
%D 2025
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jhepgc.2025.112018
%X An analysis of the Penrose-Carter diagram of the gravitational collapse of a thin shell of radiation in Minkowski spacetime supports the idea of a quantum origin of the event horizon, and therefore of the concomitant collapse process. The analysis is based on the unavoidable presence of a length scale in the conformal compactification of both Minkowski and Schwarzschild spacetimes, which in a natural way can be identified with the Planck length. One should arrive at the same conclusion, however, with a more involved mathematical description, for any other collapse process with a not naked singularity <i>i.e.</i> protected by an event horizon.
%K Event Horizon
%K Minkowski-Schwarzschild Spacetimes
%K Thin Shell Collapse
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=141711