Universality and scaling in gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field
Abstract
I summarize results from a numerical study of spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field. I consider families of solutions, scrS[p], with the property that a critical parameter value, p*, separates solutions containing black holes from those which do not. I present evidence in support of conjectures that (1) the strong-field evolution in the p-->p* limit is universal and generates structure on arbitrarily small spatiotemporal scales and (2) the masses of black holes which form satisfy a power law MBH~||p-p*||γ, where γ~=0.37 is a universal exponent.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.9
- Bibcode:
- 1993PhRvL..70....9C
- Keywords:
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- Field Theory (Physics);
- Gravitational Collapse;
- Gravitational Fields;
- Scaling Laws;
- Black Holes (Astronomy);
- Scalars;
- Astrophysics;
- 04.20.Jb;
- Exact solutions