Questions tagged [gravitational-collapse]
Use for questions related to the creation/possibility of black holes in a certain situation, singularities, the contraction of an astronomical object due to its own gravity, and the re-collapse of our universe. Do not use for questions relating to normal gravitational attraction.
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Gravitational time delay and contraction of matter [duplicate]
How can any matter contract to its Schwarzschild radius if gravitational time dilation clearly states that all clocks stop at that point. So any contraction any movement would stop. If that is so why ...
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So gravity turns things round
It makes sense, since gravity tends to push the surface of a body towards it's center. Unless I'm mistaken, everything with mass has it's own gravity, every atom and for instance, our own bodies ...
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What happens to atoms inside a black hole?
Black holes have very high gravitational force that tends to crush everything. So as we know atoms in a molecule have inter-atomic spacing between them and further electrons also revolve at a certain ...
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Is it possible for a black hole to form for an observer at spatial infinity? [duplicate]
To my knowledge if you calculate the coordinate time (time experienced by an observer at spatial infinity) it takes an infinite amount of time for an object to fall past the horizon of a Schwarzschild ...
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Why doesn't Brooklyn expand? (Or “Is the expansion of the universe kinematic?”) [duplicate]
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Why space expansion affects matter?
Imagine two tiny spacecrafts that are moving with the Hubble flow and so are moving away from each other. Let's assume that they've been ...
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White Holes and Time-Reversed Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse
So, the canned explanation that I always hear about why the white hole solution of the extended Schwarzschild solution is non-physical is that "The matter distribution cuts off the white hole solution....
