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Participant	Rahman, Sabbir
Institution	Saudi Aramco - P.O. Box 11933 - Dhahran - Eastern Province - Saudi Arabia

Session	BH4	Accepted		Order	Time
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Topology Change in Spherical Gravitational Collapse
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Abstract	We argue that the formation of a Schwarzschild black hole via Oppenheimer-Snyder type gravitational collapse must be accompanied by a change in topology upon formation of the event horizon which physically separates matter in the interior from that of the exterior. While it is true that collapsing matter crossing the event horizon continues to fall towards the singularity of the `Schwarzschild interior', this region does not in fact contain the matter originally responsible for the collapse. Rather, the latter occupies a distinct internal spacetime region with its own independent evolution. The existence of this additional component of the simplest black hole has a number of profound implications - Schwarzschild black holes are stable with constant mass; they each contain a self-contained mini-universe within their event horizons; and they live within a spacetime that is inherently double-sheeted.
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