Gravitational collapse is the contraction of an astronomical object due to the influence of its own gravity, which tends to draw matter inward toward the...

S2CID 205263326. Penrose, R. (2002). "Gravitational Collapse: The Role of General Relativity" (PDF). General Relativity and Gravitation. 34 (7): 1141. Bibcode:2002GReGr...

the universe did not collapse into a black hole, because currently-known calculations and density limits for gravitational collapse are usually based upon...

S2CID 15819376. Fryer, C. L.; New, K. C. B. (2003). "Gravitational Waves from Gravitational Collapse". Living Reviews in Relativity. 6 (1): 2. arXiv:gr-qc/0206041...

infinity or to an observer comoving with the collapsing cloud, and in the past terminates at the gravitational singularity, then that singularity is referred...

describes an instability that leads to the gravitational collapse of a cloud of gas or dust. It causes the collapse of interstellar gas clouds and subsequent...

of subatomic matter may have been tightly packed to the point of gravitational collapse, creating primordial black holes without the supernova compression...

region does not exist for black holes that have formed through gravitational collapse, however, nor are there any observed physical processes through...

the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined with gravitational collapse—that...

and the propagation of light, and include gravitational time dilation, gravitational lensing, the gravitational redshift of light, the Shapiro time delay...

causing the star to collapse. If the center of the star is composed mostly of carbon and oxygen then such a gravitational collapse will ignite runaway...

inevitably suffers gravitational collapse of the same sort as the end state of a contracting Friedmann universe. The time required for the collapse of the interior...

eye—all within the Milky Way galaxy. A star's life begins with the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material largely comprising hydrogen, helium...

holes and that during the gravitational collapse to a black hole, the entire mass energy and angular momentum of the collapsing objects is radiated away...

apparent horizon should be used instead of an event horizon, saying, "Gravitational collapse produces apparent horizons but no event horizons." He eventually...

hypotheses are two mathematical conjectures about the structure of gravitational singularities arising in general relativity. Singularities that arise...

Black holes are a class of astronomical objects that have undergone gravitational collapse, leaving behind spheroidal regions of space from which nothing can...

A collapsar is a star which has undergone gravitational collapse. When a star no longer has enough fuel for significant fusion reactions, there are three...

collapse Economic collapse Gravitational collapse creating astronomical objects Societal collapse Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the collapse of Soviet federalism...

The gravitational wave background (also GWB and stochastic background) is a random background of gravitational waves permeating the Universe, which is...

Gravitational waves are transient displacements in a gravitational field – generated by the relative motion of gravitating masses – that radiate outward...

relationships. The importance of Penrose's epoch-making paper "Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities" (summarised roughly as that if an...

nucleosynthesis, a process ultimately using the gravitational potential energy released from the gravitational collapse of supernovae to "store" energy in the...

internal gravitational force. Mathematically this is expressed using the virial theorem, which states that, to maintain equilibrium, the gravitational potential...

principle of equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass and uses it to predict gravitational lensing and gravitational redshift, historically known...

future publications. The Oppenheimer–Snyder model of continued gravitational collapse is described by the line element d s 2 = − d τ 2 + A 2 ( η ) ( d...

galaxies. Astronomers observe the gravitational effects of an unknown dark matter surrounding galaxies. Most of the gravitational potential in the universe seems...

hole (or stellar-mass black hole) is a black hole formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. They have masses ranging from about 5 to several tens...

– the universe did not re-collapse into a black hole. This is because commonly used calculations for gravitational collapse are usually based upon objects...

García-Segura, G.; Tenorio-Tagle, G.; Franco, J.; Yorke, H. W. (eds.). "Gravitational Collapse: From Massive Stars to Planets. / First Astrophysics meeting of...