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Oppenheimer and Snyder construct an explicit pressureless spherical gravitational-collapse model matched to an exterior Schwarzschild geometry, distinguishing finite comoving time from asymptotic external-clock behavior.
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Oppenheimer and Snyder construct an explicit pressureless spherical gravitational-collapse model matched to an exterior Schwarzschild geometry, distinguishing finite comoving time from asymptotic external-clock behavior. The analytic collapse model is spherical, pressureless and uses a specified interior/exterior matching and initial-data subclass. Rotation, radiation and pressure are omitted. Diverging Schwarzschild coordinate time does not mean infall physically stops or takes infinite comoving time. The paper’s broader singularity assertions are not adopted as a general theorem; later causal/singularity results remain separate.
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Contributors
- J. R. Oppenheimer · SCIENCE: Original source-listed scientific author of this scoped work; byline does not determine effort fractions.
- H. Snyder · SCIENCE: Original source-listed scientific author of this scoped work; byline does not determine effort fractions.
- J. R. Oppenheimer and H. Snyder, On Continued Gravitational Contraction (Physical Review 56,455-459,1 September 1939), original public scan
- B. Datt, Über eine Klasse von Lösungen der Gravitationsgleichungen der Relativität (Zeitschrift für Physik 108,314-321, May 1938), publisher metadata
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