Is there a stellar equilibrium against gravitational collapse?
The idea of gravitational collapse can be traced back to the earliest solutions to Einstein's equations, but at this early stage there was no convincing evidence to support the idea. Furthermore, there were many theoretical gaps in the belief that a star could not contract beyond its critical radius.Gravitational collapse objects are a conceptual precursor to black holes, and their history illustrates how such a counterintuitive idea was accepted long before their existence was proven. A black hole is a strong field structure of space-time surrounded by a one-way membrane that contains a singularity. General relativity (GR) predicts that sufficiently massive objects will collapse into black holes. In fact, the first solution to Einstein's field equations implies the existence of black holes.