Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-04-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages using Revtex; graphically analyzes the Oppenheimer-Snyder paper to show that the resulting BH has zero mass
Scientific paper
The only instance when the General Relativistic (GTR) collapse equations have been solved (almost) exactly to explicitly find the metric coefficients is the case of a homogeneous spherical dust (Oppenheimer and Snyder in 1939 in Phy. Rev. 56, 455). The equation (37) of their paper showed the formation of an event horizon for a collapsing homogeneous dust ball of mass M in that the circumference radius the outermost surface, r_b = r_0= 2M in a proper time proportional to r_0^{-1/2} in the limit of large Schrarzschild time t= infinity. But Eq.(37) was approximated from the Eq. (36) whose essential character is t = log (y+1/y-1), where, at the boundary of the star y=r_b/ r_0 = r_b /2 M. And since the argument of a logarithmic function can not be negative, one must have y >= 1 or 2M/r_b <= 1. This shows that, atleast, in this case (i) trapped surfaces are not formed, (ii) if the collapse indeed proceeds upto r=0, we must have M=0, and (iii) proper time taken for collapse =infinity. Thus, the gravitational mass of OS black holes are unique and equal to zero. In the preceding paper (astro-ph/9904162), we assumed the existence of a finite mass BH and studied its properties in terms of Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates. And we showed that the radial geodesic of a material particle which must be timelike at r=2M, if M >0, actually becomes null. And this independently showed that BHs have unique mass, M=0.
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