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The Development of a Black Hole—The Oppenheimer-Snyder Dust Cloud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

P. Szekeres
P. Szekeres*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide
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When a star of mass ≳ 2M⊙ collapses there does not appear to exist any physical mechanism to prevent total gravitational collapse, unless in some miraculous way the star always manages to blow off enough mass for it to settle down into a stable neutron star or white dwarf configuration. General relativity is needed in order to handle the ultimate situation, and the theory predicts a critical radius ρ = 2m (in units such that G = c = 1) at which the coordinates in the Schwarzschild solution

become invalid.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , March 1972 , pp. 110 - 111
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1972

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References

1 Oppenheimer, J. R. and Snyder, H., Phys. Rev., 56, 455 (1939).Google Scholar