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We present three-dimensional simulations of Einstein equations implementing a symmetric hyperbolic system of equations with dynamical lapse. The numerical implementation makes use of techniques that guarantee linear numerical stability for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Tiglio , Luis Lehner , David Neilsen

We introduce new methods to numerically construct for the first time stationary axisymmetric black hole solutions in Einstein-aether theory and study their properties. The key technical challenge is to impose regularity at the spin-2, 1,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Alexander Adam , Pau Figueras , Ted Jacobson , Toby Wiseman

We present a systematic exploration of the loss of predictivity in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (ESGB) gravity. We first formulate a gauge covariant method of characterizing the breakdown of the hyperbolicity of the equations of motion in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Abhishek Hegade K R , Justin L. Ripley , Nicolás Yunes

We present results of numerical simulations of the formation of black holes from the gravitational collapse of a massless, minimally-coupled scalar field in 2+1 dimensional, axially-symmetric, anti de-Sitter (AdS) spacetime. The geometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Frans Pretorius , Matthew W. Choptuik

Astrophysical black holes arise as exact solutions of the Einstein field equations. Therefore, any alternative, such as a gravastar, must satisfy the same level of mathematical rigor and internal consistency. A physically viable gravastar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Farook Rahaman , Bikramarka S. Choudhury , Aritra Sanyal , Anikul Islam , Bidisha Samanta

A spherically symmetric collapsing scalar field model is discussed with a dissipative fluid which includes a heat flux. This vastly general matter distribution is analyzed at the expense of a high degree of symmetry in the space-time, that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-17 Narayan Banerjee , Soumya Chakrabarti

We study Einstein gravity coupled to a massless scalar field in a static spherically symmetric space-time in four dimensions. Black hole solutions exist when the kinetic energy of the scalar field is negative, that is, for a phantom field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bronnikov , J. C. Fabris , N. Pinto-Neto , M. E. Rodrigues

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational collapse to form the black hole in the acceleratingly expanding universe in the frame of Einstein--Gauss-Bonnet theory having two scalar fields and we study the propagation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Shin'ichi Nojiri , G. G. L. Nashed

We study the instability of Schwarzschild black holes and the appearance of scalarized solutions in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity performing a time-domain analysis in a perturbative scheme. First we consider a quadratic coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-23 Fabrizio Corelli

We study a static spherically symmetric problem with a black hole and radially directed geodesic flows of dark matter. The obtained solutions have the following properties. At large distances, the gravitational field produces constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-11 Igor Nikitin

A longstanding conjecture by Belinskii, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz that the singularity in generic gravitational collapse is spacelike, local, and oscillatory is explored analytically and numerically in spatially inhomogeneous cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Beverly K. Berger , David Garfinkle , James Isenberg , Vincent Moncrief , Marsha Weaver

We present, in closed analytic form, a general stationary, slowly rotating black hole, which is solution to a large class of alternative theories of gravity in four dimensions. In these theories, the Einstein-Hilbert action is supplemented…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-27 Paolo Pani , Caio F. B. Macedo , Luis C. B. Crispino , Vitor Cardoso

We reexamine the gravitational collapse of rotating neutron stars to black holes by new 3+1 numerical relativity simulations employing the Z4c formulation of Einstein equations, the moving puncture gauge conditions, and a conservative mesh…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

Validating the results of [A.M. Abrahams and C.R. Evans, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2980] poses a numerical challenge and has been inspiring a lot of research. We join these efforts and present our first steps to achieve this goal: we discuss a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Andrzej Rostworowski

We conduct a preliminary investigation into the phenomenological implications of Einsteinian cubic gravity (ECG), a 4-dimensional theory of gravity cubic in curvature of interest for its unique formulation and properties. We find an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-13 Robie A. Hennigar , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

We observe critical phenomena in spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of Einstein Cluster. We show analytically that the collapse evolution ends either in formation of a black hole or in dispersal depending on the values of initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ashutosh Mahajan , Tomohiro Harada , Pankaj S. Joshi , Ken-ichi Nakao

We compute the Hamiltonian for spherically symmetric scalar field collapse in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in D dimensions using slicings that are regular across future horizons. We first reduce the Lagrangian to two dimensions using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Taves , C. D. Leonard , G. Kunstatter , R. B. Mann

We study continuously self-similar solutions of four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, with an arbitrary dilaton coupling. Self-similarity is an emergent symmetry of gravitational collapse near the threshold of black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-07 Jorge V. Rocha , Marija Tomašević

A new exact solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations for the gravitational collapse of a shell of matter in an already formed black hole is given. Both the shell and the black hole are endowed with electromagnetic structure and are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Cherubini , Remo Ruffini , Luca Vitagliano

We perform numerical simulations of the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field. For those data that just barely do not form black holes we find the maximum curvature at the position of the central observer. We find a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 David Garfinkle , G. Comer Duncan