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A Brief Review of Relativistic Gravitational Collapse

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We review here the basic setup to describe complete gravitational collapse of massive bodies within the general theory of relativity. We derive Einstein’s equations describing collapse and solve them in some simple well-known toy models. We study the final outcome of collapse and the quantities that describe the formation of trapped surfaces and of the central singularity.

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  1. Department of Physics and Center for Field Theory and Particle Physics, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Daniele Malafarina

  2. Physics Department, SST, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Avenue, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan

    Daniele Malafarina

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Malafarina, D. (2016). A Brief Review of Relativistic Gravitational Collapse. In: Bambi, C. (eds) Astrophysics of Black Holes. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 440. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52859-4_5

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