Black-hole production from ultrarelativistic collisions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/1/012001zbMATH Open1272.83058arXiv1209.6138OpenAlexW3106093531MaRDI QIDQ4911269FDOQ4911269

Authors: Luciano Rezzolla, Kentaro Takami 

Publication date: 14 March 2013

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Determining the conditions under which a black hole can be produced is a long-standing and fundamental problem in general relativity. We use numerical simulations of colliding selfgravitating fluid objects to study the conditions of black-hole formation when the objects are boosted to ultrarelativistic speeds. Expanding on previous work, we show that the collision is characterized by a type-I critical behaviour, with a black hole being produced for masses above a critical value, M_c, and a partially bound object for masses below the critical one. More importantly, we show for the first time that the critical mass varies with the initial effective Lorentz factor <gamma> following a simple scaling of the type M_c ~ K <gamma>^{-1.0}, thus indicating that a black hole of infinitesimal mass is produced in the limit of a diverging Lorentz factor. Furthermore, because a scaling is present also in terms of the initial stellar compactness, we provide a condition for black-hole formation in the spirit of the hoop conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6138

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesultrarelativistic collisions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Black holes (83C57) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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