Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1987 · 116 citations · 5 references
Natural SciencesAstronomyPhysicsAstrophysicsCosmologyGravitationComputational AstrophysicsEarly Universe CosmologyEinstein Field EquationsGeneral RelativityGravitational CollapseCosmic CensorshipDynamical CollapseEvent Horizon In CosmologyEvent Horizon PhysicsGravitational Collapse SimulationsNumerical Simulation Of CollapseSingularity ProblemSingularity Theorems In Cosmology
We present a numerical study of the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field. We calculate the future evolution of new initial data, suggested by Christodoulou, and we show that in spite of the original expectations these data lead only to singularities engulfed by an event horizon.
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