Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2008
Our current picture of black hole gravitational collapserelies on two assumptions: i) the resultingsingularity is hidden behind an event horizon– weak cosmic censorship conjecture – and ii) spacetimeeventually settles down to a stationarity state.In this setting,it follows that the minimal area containing an apparent horizonis bound by the square of the total ADM mass (Penrose inequality conjecture).Following Dain et al. (2002), we construct numerically a familyof axisymmetric initial data with one or several marginallytrapped surfaces. Penrose and related geometric inequalitiesare discused for these data. As a by-product, it is shownhow Penrose inequality can be usedas a diagnosis for an apparent horizon finder numerical routine.