# New instability of non-extremal black holes: spitting out supertubes

Presented by:
B Chowdhury [University of Amsterdam]
Date:
Wednesday 25th January 2012 - 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
INI Seminar Room 1
Abstract:
We search for stable bound states of non-extremal rotating three-charge black holes in five dimensions (Cvetic-Youm black holes) and supertubes. We do this by studying the potential of supertube probes in the non-extremal black hole background and find that generically the marginally bound state of the supersymmetric limit becomes metastable and disappears with non-extremality (higher temperature). However near extremality there is a range of parameters allowing for stable bound states, which have lower energy than the supertube-black hole merger.

Angular momentum is crucial for this effect. We use this setup in the D1-D5 decoupling limit to map a thermodynamic instability of the CFT (a new phase which is entropically dominant over the black hole phase) to a tunneling instability of the black hole towards the supertube-black hole bound state. This generalizes the results of "Moulting Black Holes", which mapped an entropy enigma in the bulk to the dual CFT in a supersymmetric setup.