Gravitational Collapse and Cosmic Censorship
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This article gives an elementary overview of the end-state of gravitational collapse according to classical general relativity. The focus of discussion is the formation of black holes and naked singularities in various physically reasonable models of gravitational collapse. Possible implications for the cosmic censorship hypothesis are outlined. based on a talk given at the XVIIIth meeting of the Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India, 15-17 February, 1996; to appear in the Conference Proceedings Institute of Mathematical Sciences Report IMSc 117, Editors: G. Date and
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