Formation of naked singularities: The violation of cosmic censorship
Abstract
We use a new numerical code to evolve collisionless gas spheroids in full general relativity. In all cases the spheroids collapse to singularities. When the spheroids are sufficiently compact, the singularities are hidden inside black holes. However, when the spheriods are sufficiently large, there are no apparent horizons. These results lend support to the hoop conjecture and appear to demonstrate that naked singularities can form in asymptotically flat spacetimes.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.994
- Bibcode:
- 1991PhRvL..66..994S
- Keywords:
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- Black Holes (Astronomy);
- Gravitational Collapse;
- Naked Singularities;
- Relativity;
- Space-Time Functions;
- Angular Momentum;
- Codes;
- Riemann Manifold;
- Schwarzschild Metric;
- Spheroids;
- Astrophysics;
- 04.20.Jb;
- 95.30.Sf;
- 97.60.Lf;
- Exact solutions;
- Relativity and gravitation;
- Black holes