Description
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime predicts that black holes evaporate through Hawking radiation, but without a full quantum treatment of gravity the endpoint of the process is not yet understood. This talk will present a general model of evaporating black holes in 2D dilaton gravity, with a focus on a Bardeen-like regular black hole model. The formation and evaporation of a black hole, including backreaction, is simulated numerically. We find that the apparent horizons evaporate smoothly in finite time and that the final spacetime is free of pathologies such as singularities, event horizons, or Cauchy horizons. These results suggest that resolving the singularity could be a viable solution to the black hole information loss problem