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A new solution for the endpoint of gravitational collapse is proposed. By extending the concept of Bose-Einstein condensation to gravitational systems, a cold, compact object with an interior de Sitter condensate phase and an exterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-16 Pawel O. Mazur , Emil Mottola

The stability and other physical properties of a class of regular black holes, quasiblack holes, and other electrically charged compact objects are investigated in the present work. The compact objects are obtained by solving the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-12 Angel D. D. Masa , Enesson S. de Oliveira , Vilson T. Zanchin

Gravastars have been recently proposed as potential alternatives to explain the astrophysical phenomenology traditionally associated to black holes, raising the question of whether the two objects can be distinguished at all. Leaving aside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cecilia B. M. H. Chirenti , Luciano Rezzolla

In spherical symmetry, solutions of the semiclassical Einstein equations belong to one of two possible classes. Both classes contain solutions that -- depending on the dynamic behavior of the horizon -- describe evaporating physical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-10 Pravin K. Dahal , Sebastian Murk , Daniel R. Terno

We construct generic spherically symmetric thin-shell gravastars by using the cut-and-paste procedure. We take considerable effort to make the analysis as general and unified as practicable; investigating both the internal physics of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-15 Prado Martin-Moruno , Nadiezhda Montelongo Garcia , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Matt Visser

Gravitational vacuum condensate stars, proposed as the endpoint of gravitational collapse consistent with quantum theory, are reviewed. Gravastars are cold, low entropy, maximally compact objects characterized by a surface boundary layer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 Emil Mottola

In this paper we attempt to construct a regular gravastar model using the UV corrected framework of Loop Quantum Cosmology. We find that a stable gravastar model can be constructed with a number of unique features: (i) no thin shell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Shounak Ghosh , Rikpratik Sengupta , Mehedi Kalam

Viable alternatives to astrophysical black holes include hyper-compact objects without horizon, such as gravastars, boson stars, wormholes and superspinars. The authors have recently shown that typical rapidly-spinning gravastars and boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani , Mariano Cadoni , Marco Cavaglia

The Schwarzschild interior solution, or `Schwarzschild star', which describes a spherically symmetric homogeneous mass with constant energy density, shows a divergence in pressure when the radius of the star reaches the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-05 Camilo Posada

We establish the dynamical instability of a static, spherically symmetric, and infinitesimally thin shell in general relativity. The shell is made up of a perfect fluid with a barotropic equation of state, and it produces a Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Tristan Pitre , Berend Schneider , Eric Poisson

The ergoregion instability is known to affect very compact objects that rotate very rapidly and do not possess a horizon. We present here a detailed analysis on the relevance of the ergoregion instability for the viability of gravastars.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cecilia B. M. H. Chirenti , Luciano Rezzolla

In this article, we are reporting for the first time the existence of gravastar configurations in the framework of K(R,T)-gravity, which can be treated as an alternative to a black hole (Mazur and Mottola). This strengthens how much this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 GRP Teruel , Ksh. Newton Singh , Tanmoy Chowdhury , Farook Rahaman , Monimala Mondal

We develop a Birman-Schwinger principle for the spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat Einstein-Vlasov system. It characterizes stability properties of steady states such as the positive definiteness of an Antonov-type operator or the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Sebastian Günther , Gerhard Rein , Christopher Straub

In the present work, we have discussed the four dimensional spherically symmetric steller system in the framework of modified $f(T)$ gravity theory with electro-magnetic field. The field equations have been written for two cases, either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Ujjal Debnath

This paper investigates the gravastar model as a potential alternative to black holes, utilizing the Kuchowicz metric in the context of Rastall gravity. The model comprises three distinct regions: an interior with positive energy density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Tayyab Naseer , M. Sharif , Areej Tabassum

We consider a model of Bose-Einstein condensate of weakly interacting off-shell gravitons in the regime that is far from the quantum critical point. Working in static spherically symmetric setup, recent study has demonstrated that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Andy Octavian Latief , Fiki Taufik Akbar , Bobby Eka Gunara

In this work we derive a gravastar model in Randall-Sundrum II braneworld scenario. Gravastars (or gravitationally vacuum stars) were proposed by Mazur and Mottola as systems of gravitational collapse alternative to black holes. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-08 José D V Arbañil , Pedro H R S Moraes , Manuel Malheiro

This manuscript explores the gravastar model in the $f(R,\Sigma,T)$ gravity framework, with the help of Kuchowicz metric funcition, offering an alternative to black holes. A gravastar has three regions: interior, intermediate shell, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-05 Bharat Singh , S. Surendra Singh

We study gravitational collapse of a spherical fluid in nonrelativistic general covariant theory of the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity with the projectability condition and an arbitrary coupling constant $\lambda$, where $|\lambda - 1|$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-01 Jared Greenwald , Jonatan Lenells , V. H. Satheeshkumar , Anzhong Wang

This work is devoted to study the analytical and regular solutions of a particular self-gravitating object (i.e., gravastar) in a particular theory of gravity. We derive the corresponding field equations in the presence of effective energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-30 Z. Yousaf , M. Z. Bhatti , H. Asad