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Hoyle and Narlikar1 have recently considered the gravitational contraction of large spherically symmetric masses. They claim that according to the field equations of general relativity a sufficiently large mass must collapse to a space–time singularity, provided that the equation of state of the matter is realistic. Much of their argument is based on the alleged absence of suitable static spherically symmetric interior solutions.
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Hoyle, F., and Narlikar, J. V., Proc. Roy. Soc., 278, 465 (1964).
Bonnor, W. B., Z. Phys., 160, 59 (1960).
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BONNOR, W. Gravitational Collapse. Nature 204, 868 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204868a0
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