Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 9–12 (1993)Universality and scaling in gravitational collapse of a massless scalar fieldReceived 22 September 1992; published in the issue dated 4 January 1993 I summarize results from a numerical study of spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field. I consider families of solutions, scrS[p], with the property that a critical parameter value, p*, separates solutions containing black holes from those which do not. I present evidence in support of conjectures that (1) the strong-field evolution in the p→p* limit is universal and generates structure on arbitrarily small spatiotemporal scales and (2) the masses of black holes which form satisfy a power law MBH∝‖p-p*‖γ, where γ≊0.37 is a universal exponent. © 1993 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.9
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.9
PACS:
04.20.Jb
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