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An analytical model that represents the collapse of a massless scalar wave packet with continuous self-similarity is constructed, and critical phenomena are found. In the supercritical case, the mass of black holes is finite and has the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Anzhong Wang , Henrique P. de Oliveira

In this paper, we prove that extremal black holes arise on the threshold of gravitational collapse. More precisely, we construct smooth one-parameter families of smooth, spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell-Vlasov system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-16 Christoph Kehle , Ryan Unger

We study the formation of black holes from subhorizon and superhorizon perturbations in a matter dominated universe with 3+1D numerical relativity simulations. We find that there are two primary mechanisms of formation depending on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-25 Eloy de Jong , Josu C. Aurrekoetxea , Eugene A. Lim

Following earlier works on the KMY model of black-hole formation and evaporation, we construct the metric for a matter sphere in gravitational collapse, with the back-reaction of pre-Hawking radiation taken into consideration. The mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-29 Pei-Ming Ho

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

In this talk I introduce the critical behavior occurring at the extremal limit of black holes. The extremal limit of black holes is a critical point and a phase transition takes place from the extremal black holes to their nonextremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Rong-Gen Cai

It is shown that there exists a range of parameters in which gravitational collapse with a spherically symmetric massive scalar field can be treated as if it were collapsing dust. This implies a criterion for the formation of black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves , Ian G. Moss

The gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric massive core of a star in which the fluid component is interacting with a growing vacuum energy density filling a FLRW type geometry with an arbitrary curvature parameter is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-05 E. L. D. Perico , J. A. S. Lima , M. Campos

We study the gravitational collapse of a kink within spherical symmetry and the characteristic formulation of General Relativity. We explore some expected but elusive gravitational collapse issues which have not been studied before in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 W. Barreto , J. Crespo , H. de Oliveira , E. Rodrigues , B. Rodriguez-Mueller

We present results from the first fully relativistic simulations of the critical collapse of rotating radiation fluids. We observe critical scaling both in subcritical evolutions, in which case the fluid disperses to infinity and leaves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-14 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Carsten Gundlach

Studying the threshold of black hole formation via numerical evolution has led to the discovery of fascinating nonlinear phenomena. Power-law mass scaling, aspects of universality, and self-similarity have now been found for a large variety…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Steven L. Liebling

We investigate the threshold of gravitational collapse with angular momentum, under the assumption that the critical solution is spherical and self-similar and has two growing modes, namely one spherical mode and one axial dipole mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Gundlach

We present a numerical investigation of the gravitational collapse of horizon-size density fluctuations to primordial black holes (PBHs) during the radiation-dominated phase of the Early Universe. The collapse dynamics of three different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. C. Niemeyer , K. Jedamzik

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

We study black hole formation in a model of two dimensional dilaton gravity and 24 massless scalar fields with a boundary. We find the most general boundary condition consistent with perfect reflection of matter and the constraints. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Sumit R. Das , Sudipta Mukherji

Following on after two previous papers discussing the formation of primordial black holes in the early universe, we present here results from an in-depth investigation of the extent to which primordial black hole formation in the radiative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilia Musco , John C. Miller , Alexander G. Polnarev

As first discovered by Choptuik, the black hole threshold in the space of initial data for general relativity shows both surprising structure and surprising simplicity. Universality, power-law scaling of the black hole mass, and scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Carsten Gundlach , David Hilditch , José M. Martín-García

We present new analytical self-similar solutions describing a collapse of a massless scalar field in scalar-tensor theories. The solutions exhibit a type of critical behavior. The black hole mass for the near critical evolution is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

A quasi-black hole, either non-extremal or extremal, can be broadly defined as the limiting configuration of a body when its boundary approaches the body's quasihorizon. We consider the mass contributions and the mass formula for a static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-30 José P. S. Lemos , Oleg B. Zaslavskii

We investigate the dynamics of black hole critical collapse in the limit of a large number of spacetime dimensions, $D$. In particular, we study the spherical gravitational collapse of a massless, scale-invariant scalar field with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Craig R. Clark , Guilherme L. Pimentel