1998/12/21 by Patrick R Brady, Brady, Patrick R, Mike J Cai +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9812071
16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proceedings of 8th Marcel Grossmann Conference (World Scientific, Singapore)
arxiv created 1998/12/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
This article reviews classical and quantum aspects of critical phenomena in gravitational collapse. We pay special attention to the origin of the scaling law for black hole mass, and to phase transitions in which black hole formation turns on at finite mass. We present some new results for perfect fluids with pressure proportional to density.