Spherical Gravitational Collapse and Accretion - Exact General Relativistic Description

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2002-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202054v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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In this paper, we consider the problems of spherical gravitational collapse and accretion using a spherically symmetric, spatially homothetic spacetime, that is, as an exact solution (cqg1) of the field equations of general relativity. Properties of matter like its equation of state determine whether the collapse becomes unstoppable or not since the spacetime under consideration admits any equation of state for matter in it. We can therefore describe the formation of a semi-stable object here. {\bf A black hole may form in the unstoppable gravitational collapse and/or accretion but only as an infinite red-shift surface that is, however, not a null hyper-surface.} Therefore, spherical, astrophysical black holes will always be of this type. This result will have important implications for observational astrophysics and other considerations in General Relativity based on the conception of black hole as a null hyper-surface.

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