Gravitational Collapse End States
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Recent developments on the final state of a gravitationally collapsing massive matter cloud are summarized and reviewed here. After a brief background on the problem, we point out how the black hole and naked singularity end states arise naturally in spherical collapse. We see that it is the geometry of trapped surfaces that governs this phenomena.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0412082,
title = {Gravitational Collapse End States},
author = {Pankaj S Joshi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0412082},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, Invited talk at `International workshop on dynamics and thermodynamics of black holes and naked singularities', 13-15 May, Milano