Self-similar spherical gravitational collapse and the cosmic censorship hypothesis (Q1096910)
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Self-similar spherical gravitational collapse and the cosmic censorship hypothesis (English)
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1988
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We show that a self-similar general relativistic spherical collapse of a perfect fluid with an adiabatic equation of state \(p=(\gamma -1)\rho\) and low enough \(\gamma\) values, results in a naked singularity. The singularity is tangent to an event horizon which surrounds a massive singularity and the redshift along a null geodesic from the singularity to an external observer is infinite. We believe that this is the most serious counter-example to cosmic censorship obtained so far.
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spherical collapse
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perfect fluid
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naked singularity
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cosmic censorship
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