Gravitational Collapse with a Cosmological Constant

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1999-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9912066v1

Phys.Rev. D61 (2000) 084029

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

7 pages, 10 figures; To appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.61.084029

We consider the effect of a positive cosmological constant on spherical gravitational collapse to a black hole for a few simple, analytic cases. We construct the complete Oppenheimer-Snyder-deSitter (OSdS) spacetime, the generalization of the Oppenheimer-Snyder solution for collapse from rest of a homogeneous dust ball in an exterior vacuum. In OSdS collapse, the cosmological constant may affect the onset of collapse and decelerate the implosion initially, but it plays a diminishing role as the collapse proceeds. We also construct spacetimes in which a collapsing dust ball can bounce, or hover in unstable equilibrium, due to the repulsive force of the cosmological constant. We explore the causal structure of the different spacetimes and identify any cosmological and black hole event horizons which may be present.

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