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Mazur and Mottola's gravastar model represents one of the few serious alternatives to the traditional understanding of the black hole. The gravastar is typically regarded as a theoretical alternative for the black hole. This article…

General Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Meghanil Sinha , S. Surendra Singh

We show that a generic relativistic membrane with in-plane pressure and surface density having the same sign is unstable with respect to a series of warping mode instabilities with high wave numbers. We also examine the criteria of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Huan Yang , Beatrice Bonga , Zhen Pan

This paper studies the influence of charge on a compact stellar structure also regarded as vacuum condensate star in the background of $f(\mathfrak{R},\mathcal{T}^{2})$ gravity. This object is considered the alternate of black hole whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-10 M. Sharif , Saba Naz

We study spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous fluid with anisotropic energy momentum tensor (EMT) in Rastall gravity. Considering a linear equation of state (EoS) for the fluid profiles, i.e., $p_r=w_r\rho$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Akbar Jahan , Naser Sadeghnezhad , Amir Hadi Ziaie

In arXiv:1705.10172 a string theory inspired alternative to gravitational collapse was proposed, consisting of a bubble of AdS space made up of ingredients from string theory. These ultra compact objects are $9/8$ times the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-03 Ulf Danielsson , Suvendu Giri

We summarize the general formalism describing surface flows in three-dimensional space in a form which is suitable for various astrophysical applications. We then apply the formalism to the analysis of non-radial perturbations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Bicak , B. G. Schmidt

We develop an extremely general and robust framework that can be adapted to wide classes of generic spherically symmetric thin-shell gravastars. The thin shell (transition layer) will be permitted to move freely in the bulk spacetimes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-25 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Prado Martín-Moruno , Nadiezhda Montelongo-García , Matt Visser

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 propose a unique stellar model under the $f(R,\mathcal{T})$ gravity by using the conjecture of Mazur-Mottola [P. Mazur and E. Mottola, Report number: LA-UR-01-5067., P. Mazur and E. Mottola, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 9545 (2004)]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Amit Das , Shounak Ghosh , B. K. Guha , Swapan Das , Farook Rahaman , Saibal Ray

We present a new model of gravastar in the higher dimensional Einsteinian spacetime including Einstein's cosmological constant $\Lambda$. Following Mazur and Mottola (2001,~2004) we obtain a set of solutions for gravastar. This gravastar is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-22 Shounak Ghosh , Saibal Ray , Farook Rahaman , B. K. Guha

In this paper, we discuss the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of matter fields in the de Sitter universe. The energy-momentum tensor of the matter field is assumed to admit a wide variety including dust, perfect fluids with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Akriti Garg , Ayan Chatterjee

We study the gravitational collapse problem of rotating shells in three-dimensional Einstein gravity with and without a cosmological constant. Taking the exterior and interior metrics to be those of stationary metrics with asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert B. Mann , John J. Oh , Mu-In Park

We study the gravitational vacuum star (gravastar) configuration as proposed by other authors in a model where the interior de Sitter spacetime segment is continuously extended to the exterior Schwarzschild spacetime. The multilayered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-06-19 A. DeBenedictis , D. Horvat , S. Ilijic , S. Kloster , K. S. Viswanathan

Compelling alternatives to black holes, namely, gravitational vacuum star ({\it gravastar}) models, the multilayered structure compact objects, have been proposed to avoid a number of theoretical problems associated with event horizons and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-13 Ayan Banerjee , J. R. Villanueva , Phongpichit Channuie , Kimet Jusufi

Dynamical models of prototype gravastars were constructed in order to study their stability. The models are the Visser-Wiltshire three-layer gravastars, in which an infinitely thin spherical shell of stiff fluid divides the whole spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 P. Rocha , A. Y. Miguelote , R. Chan , M. F. da Silva , N. O. Santos , Anzhong Wang

Considering a Vaidya exterior spacetime, we study dynamical models of prototype gravastars, made of an infinitely thin spherical shell of a perfect fluid with the equation of state $p = \sigma$, enclosing an interior de Sitter spacetime. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-22 R. Chan , M. F. A. da Silva , J. F. Villas da Rocha , Anzhong Wang

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

Gravitational waves from compact objects provide information about their structure, probing deep into strong-gravity regions. Here we illustrate how the presence or absence of an event horizon can produce qualitative differences in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-07 Paolo Pani , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Yanbei Chen , Richard Norte

New spherically symmetric gravastar solutions, stable to radial perturbations, are found by utilising the construction of Visser and Wiltshire. The solutions possess an anti--de Sitter or de Sitter interior and a Schwarzschild--(anti)--de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Benedict M. N. Carter

In this paper, we discuss some feasible features of gravastar that were firstly demonstrated by Mazur and Mottola. It is already established that gravastar associates the de-Sitter spacetime in its inner sector with the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-05 M. Z. Bhatti , Z. Yousaf , A. Rehman