Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse

As first discovered by Choptuik, the black hole threshold in the space of initial data for general relativity shows both surprising structure and surprising simplicity. Universality, power-law scaling of the black hole mass, and scale echoing have given rise to the term “critical phenomena”. They ar...

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Main Authors: Martín-García José M., Gundlach Carsten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2007-12-01
Series:Living Reviews in Relativity
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Online Access:http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2007-5