BLACK HOLES: THE ULTIMATE FATE OF THE COLLAPSING STARS

Md. Haider Ali  Biswas

doi:10.53808/KUS.2007.8.1.0637-PS

Authors

Md. Haider Ali Biswas Mathematics Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2007.8.1.0637-PS

Keywords:

General relativity, Schwarzschild metric, event horizon, gravitational collapse, singularity, black hole

Abstract

Black holes are among the most intriguing objects in modern physics (Alwis, 1992). It is one of the most fascinating objects in the universe, and it can be understood on the basis of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Black hole is nothing but the ultimate destiny of massive stars which undergo a dramatic gravitational collapse (Horowitz and Teukolsky, 1999). In the present study, we investigate the nature of the collapsing stars, the observational evidence for black holes and some recent developments in the black hole physics.

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