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We show that the naked singularities arising in dust collapse from smooth initial data (which include those discovered by Eardley and Smarr, Christodoulou, and Newman) are removed when we make transition to higher dimensional spacetimes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Rituparno Goswami , Pankaj S Joshi

Penrose's weak cosmic censorship conjecture asserts that spacetime singularities produced by gravitational collapse are generically hidden behind event horizons, thus preventing them from causally influencing distant observers and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Giovanni Caridi , Fabrizio Corelli , Paolo Pani

Seeking singularity free solutions are important for further understanding black holes in quantum level. Recently, a five-dimensional singularity free black hole/topological star was constructed [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151101 (2021)].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Wen-Di Guo , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

A spherical dust cloud which is initially at rest and which has a monotonously decaying density profile collapses and forms a shell-focussing singularity. Provided the density profile is not too flat, meaning that its second radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-17 Néstor Ortiz , Olivier Sarbach

Gravitational collapse is one of the most fruitful subjects in gravitational physics. It is well known that singularity formation is inevitable in complete gravitational collapse. It was conjectured that such a singularity should be hidden…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Tomohiro Harada , Hideo Iguchi , Ken-ichi Nakao

Considering the evolution of a perfect fluid with self-similarity of the second kind, we have found that an initial naked singularity can be trapped by an event horizon due to collapsing matter. The fluid moves along time-like geodesics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-25 C. F. C. Brandt , R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva , J. F. Villas da Rocha

Spacetime singularity has always been of interest since the proof of the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorem. Naked singularity naturally emerges from reasonable initial conditions in the collapsing process. A recent interesting approach in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Hongsheng Zhang

Dynamical evolution of test fields in background geometry with a naked singularity is an important problem relevant to the Cauchy horizon instability and the observational signatures different from black hole formation. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eiji Mitsuda , Hirotaka Yoshino , Akira Tomimatsu

Cosmic expansion is expected to influence on the size of black hole shadow observed by comoving observer. Except the simplest case of Schwarzschild black hole in de Sitter universe, analytical approach for calculation of shadow size in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-24 Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

We examine the role of the initial density and velocity distribution in the gravitational collapse of a spherical inhomogeneous dust cloud. Such a collapse is described by the Tolman-Bondi metric which has two free functions: the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 T. P. Singh , P. S. Joshi

We examine whether the Schwarzschild black hole can emerge as the continuous end state of gravitational collapse from a non-singular configuration. Employing a time dependent extension of the regular Schwarzschild metric, we track the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Jorge Ovalle , Roberto Casadio , Alexander Kamenshchik

We study stability of occurrence of black holes and naked singularities that arise as a final state for a complete gravitational collapse of type I matter field in a spherically symmetric $N$ dimensional spacetime with equation of state $p…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-26 Sanjay Sarwe , R. V. Saraykar

We study black holes produced by the collapse of a spherically symmetric charged scalar field in asymptotically flat space. We employ a late time expansion and show decaying fluxes of radiation through the event horizon imply the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-03 Paul M. Chesler , Ramesh Narayan , Erik Curiel

We show that, in principle, a slowly evolving gravitationally collapsing perfect fluid cloud can asymptotically settle to a static spherically symmetric equilibrium configuration with a naked singularity at the center. We consider one such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Pankaj S. Joshi , Daniele Malafarina , Ramesh Narayan

There are non-radial null geodesics emanating from the shell focusing singularity formed at the symmetric center in a spherically symmetric dust collapse. In this article, assuming the self-similarity in the region filled with the dust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ken-ichi Nakao , Naoki Kobayashi , Hideki Ishihara

The formation and semi-classical evaporation of two-dimensional black holes is studied in an exactly solvable model. Above a certain threshold energy flux, collapsing matter forms a singularity inside an apparent horizon. As the black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 J. Russo , L. Susskind , L. Thorlacius

Electromagnetic waves propagating in the background provided by a spacetime hosting a strong curvature, naked singularity, are fully studied. The analysis is performed not only in the realm of geometrical optics -- which, not surprisingly,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-25 Franco Fiorini , Santiago Hernandez , Juan Manuel Paez

Generalizing earlier results on the initial data and the final fate of dust collapse, we study here the relevance of the initial state of a spherically symmetric matter cloud towards determining its end state in the course of a continuing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. S. Joshi , I. H. Dwivedi

The gravitational collapse of a thick cylindrical shell of dust matter is investigated. It is found that a spacetime singularity forms on the symmetry axis and that it is necessarily naked, i.e., observable in principle. We propose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ken-ichi Nakao , Yasunari Kurita , Yoshiyuki Morisawa , Tomohiro Harada

A distinguishable and observable physical property of Naked Singular Regions of the spacetime formed during a gravitational collapse has important implications for both experimental and theoretical relativity. We examine here whether energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-08 S. Jhingan , I. H. Dwivedi , S. Barve