Status Report on Black Hole Critical Behavior

COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

Abstract

In 1993 Choptuik found interesting nonlinear behavior near the threshold of black hole formation in the collapse of a real scalar field. His discovery set-off a flurry of further studies revealing such phenomena in many other models, as well as similar behavior in models without black holes. I review the current understanding produced by much of this work and also emphasize remaining questions.

Authors

  • Steven Liebling

    Long Island University