The spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Vol. 13 (3) , 497-512
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/13/3/014
Abstract
We report on a numerical study of the spherically symmetric collapse of a self-gravitating massless scalar field. Earlier results of Choptuik (1992, 1994) are confirmed. The field either disperses to infinity or collapses to a black hole, depending on the strength of the initial data. For evolutions where the strength is close to but below the strength required to form a black hole, we argue that there will be a region close to the axis where the scalar curvature and field energy density can reach arbitrarily large levels, and which is visible to distant observers.Keywords
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