Pressureless homologous spherical collapse

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Pressureless homologous spherical collapse by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-20
A uniform spherical cloud with negligible pressure and velocity remains uniform: the continuity equation gives . The shell theorem gives interior gravitational acceleration , so its outer radius satisfies the displayed equation, with fixed mass . Collapse from rest has . Writing , its cycloid parametrization is and , for . Complete collapse occurs after . This Newtonian dust solution ceases to be a regular fluid configuration at zero radius.

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