Gravitational collapse of a charged viscous-fluid universe

Abstract

In the course of obtaining three collapsing models of the charged viscous-fluid distribution, the dynamics of gravitational collapse are investigated with respect to them, and their physical and geometrical properties are studied critically, In all the cases, with a proper choice of the mass, the interior solution can be matched to the exterior Schwarzschild vacuum solution, thereby the solution being continuous at the boundary of the star. In all these models the matter inside is found to be radiating thus giving us the opportunity of identifying the gravitational collapse of a realistic astrophysical object. At the boundary of these model stars the matter distribution comes out to be that of dust and thereby comoving with respect to the coordinate system used. All the models are seen to be physically acceptable; they come out to be realistic models of collapsing astrophysical objects which will be of much interest in studying the phenomenon of black holes in this Universe.