2007/06/08 by Tanmay Vachaspati, Vachaspati, Tanmay · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0706.1203
2 pages, 1 figure; included Addendum to connect with LIGO+Fermi observations
openalex publication_date 2007/06/08 · arxiv created 2016/03/16 · arxiv updated 2016/03/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Stars that are collapsing toward forming a black hole but are frozen near the Schwarzschild horizon are termed "black stars". Collisions of black stars, in contrast to black hole collisions, may be sources of gamma ray bursts, whose basic parameters are estimated quite simply and are found to be consistent with observed gamma ray bursts. Black star gamma ray bursts should be preceded by gravitational wave emission similar to that from the coalescence of black holes.