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On continued gravitational collapse

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

According to a widespread idee fixe, the spherically-symmetric collapse of a sufficiently massive celestial body of spherical shape should generate a black hole. I prove that this process generates simply an ordinary point mass. My argument is model-independent.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0001453,
  title  = {On continued gravitational collapse},
  author = {A. Loinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0001453},
  year   = {2007}
}

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