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Initially cold and spherically symmetric self-gravitating systems may give rise to a virial equilibrium state which is far from spherically symmetric, and typically triaxial. We focus here on how the degree of symmetry breaking in the final…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Francesco Sylos Labini , David Benhaiem , Michael Joyce

We investigate the spherically-symmetric gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field in the framework of a type-II minimally modified gravity theory called VCDM. This theory propagates only two local physical degrees of freedom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-08 Atabak Fathe Jalali , Paul Martens , Shinji Mukohyama

This study explores the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field within Quadratic Gravity treated as a dimension-four operator Effective Field Theory extension to General Relativity. The additional degrees of freedom associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-08 Ramiro Cayuso

We study the model of spherically symmetric and spatially homogeneous gravitational collapse of a minimally coupled scalar field. Our study focuses on obtaining the scalar field potential that leads to a final equilibrium state in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Dipanjan Dey , Koushiki , Pankaj S. Joshi

We present a thermodynamic analysis of spherically symmetric gravitational collapse. Using the Hayward-Kodama formalism, we treat a collapsing sphere as a thermodynamic system and express the surface gravity $\kappa_{hk}$ in terms of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Soumya Chakrabarti

We study gravitational collapse for the Starobinsky $R^2$ model, a particular example of an $f(r)$ theory, in a spherically symmetric spacetime. We add a massless scalar field as matter content to the spacetime. We work in the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-02 Yolbeiker Rodríguez Baez

The purpose of this article is to show that when dynamically cold, dissipationless self-gravitating systems collapse, their evolution is a strong function of the symmetry in the initial distribution. We explore with a set of pressure-less…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Boily , E. Athanassoula , P. Kroupa

We study first order phase transitions in the gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric skyrmions. Static sphaleron solutions are shown to play the role of critical solutions separating black-hole spacetimes from no-black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Piotr Bizoń , Tadeusz Chmaj

It is shown that a scalar field, minimally coupled to gravity may have collapsing modes even when the energy condition is violated, that is, for $(\rho+3p)<0$. This result may be useful in the investigation of the possible clustering of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Koyel Ganguly , Narayan Banerjee

This paper studies gravitational collapse of a complex scalar field at the threshold for black hole formation, assuming that the collapse is spherically symmetric and continuously self-similar. A new solution of the coupled Einstein-scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Eric W. Hirschmann , Douglas M. Eardley

The issues of scaling symmetry and critical point behavior are studied for fluctuations about extremal charged black holes. We consider the scattering and capture of the spherically symmetric mode of a charged, massive test field on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-13 Jennie Traschen

We simulate the spindle gravitational collapse of a collisionless particle system in a 3D numerical relativity code and compare the qualitative results with the old work done by Shapiro and Teukolsky(ST). The simulation starts from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-03 Chul-Moon Yoo , Tomohiro Harada , Hirotada Okawa

Critical gravitational collapse and self similarity are used to probe the mass distribution of subsolar objects. We demonstrate that at very low mass the distribution is given by a power law, with an exponent opposite in sign to that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matt Visser , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field with the periodic boundary condition in a cubic box is reported. This system can be regarded as a lattice universe model. We construct the initial data for a Gaussian like profile of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Chul-Moon Yoo , Taishi Ikeda , Hirotada Okawa

Numerical studies of the gravitational collapse of a stiff (P=rho) fluid have found the now familiar critical phenomena, namely scaling of the black hole mass with a critical exponent and continuous self-similarity at the threshold of black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Patrick R. Brady , Matthew W. Choptuik , Carsten Gundlach , David W. Neilsen

We study the spherically symmetric collapse of the axion/dilaton system coupled to gravity. We show numerically that the critical solution at the threshold of black hole formation is continuously self-similar. Numerical and analytical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Rufus S. Hamade , James H. Horne , John M. Stewart

An axisymmetric collapse of non-rotating gravitational waves is numerically investigated in the subcritical regime where no black holes form but where curvature attains a maximum and decreases, following the dispersion of the initial wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-17 Evgeny Sorkin

In general relativity black holes can be formed from regular initial data that do not contain a black hole already. The space of regular initial data for general relativity therefore splits naturally into two halves: data that form a black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carsten Gundlach

We study the gravitational collapse in ($n+2$)-D quasi-spherical Szekeres space-time (which possess no killing vectors) with dust as the matter distribution. Instead of choosing the radial coordinate `$r$' as the initial value for the scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ujjal Debnath , Subenoy Chakraborty

We continue our study of the gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric skyrmions. For certain families of initial data, we find the discretely self-similar Type II critical transition characterized by the mass scaling exponent $\gamma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Bizon , Tadeusz Chmaj , Zbislaw Tabor