Pressureless homologous spherical collapse
ID: pressureless-homologous-spherical-collapse
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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