Gravitational Collapse and Spacetime Singularities

by Pankaj S. Joshi

Book Overview

Physical phenomena in astrophysics and cosmology involve gravitational collapse in a fundamental way. The final fate of a massive star when it collapses under its own gravity at the end of its life cycle is one of the most important questions in gravitation theory and relativistic astrophysics, and is the foundation of black hole physics. General relativity predicts that continual gravitational collapse gives rise to a space-time singularity. Quantum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110740536X
• ISBN13: 9781107405363
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"