Black string

A black string is a higher dimensional (D>4) generalization of a black hole in which the event horizon is topologically equivalent to S² × S¹ and spacetime is asymptotically M^d−1 × S¹.

Perturbations of black string solutions were found to be unstable for L (the length around S¹) greater than some threshold L′. The full non-linear evolution of a black string beyond this threshold might result in a black string breaking up into separate black holes which would coalesce into a single black hole. This scenario seems unlikely because it was realized a black string could not pinch off in finite time, shrinking S² to a point and then evolving to some Kaluza-Klein black hole. When perturbed, the black string would settle into a stable, static non-uniform black string state.