Journal
GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION
Volume 50, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-018-2379-z
Keywords
Black hole; Shadow; Gravitational collapse; Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates
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- DFG
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The shadow of a black hole is usually calculated, either analytically or numerically, on the assumption that the black hole is eternal, i.e., that it has existed for all time. Here we ask the question of how this shadow comes about in the course of time when a black hole is formed by gravitational collapse. To that end we consider a star that is spherically symmetric, dark and non-transparent and we assume that it begins, at some instant of time, to collapse in free fall like a ball of dust. We analytically calculate the dependence on time of the angular radius of the shadow, first for a static observer who is watching the collapse from a certain distance and then for an observer who is falling towards the centre following the collapsing star.
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