Living Reviews in RelativityCurrent articles from Living Reviews in Relativity. Living Reviews in Relativity is a peer-refereed, solely online physics journal publishing invited reviews covering all areas of relativity research. Reviews are kept up to date by their authors. All reference information is collected into a searchable database. Living Reviews in Relativity is a free resource to the scientific community. Published by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam,...Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse- December 11, 2007 As first discovered by Choptuik, the black hole threshold in the space of initial data for general relativity shows both surprising structure and surprising simplicity. Universality, power-law scaling of the black hole mass, and scale echoing have given rise to the term critical phenomena. They are explained by the existence of exact solutions which are attractors within the black hole threshold, that is, attractors of codimension one in phase space, and which are typically self-similar....http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2007-5 |