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SUMMARY:Martin Lesourd (BHI\, Harvard)
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 ">How Do Black Holes Form?</a>\nby Martin Lesourd (BHI\, Harvard) as part 
 of BHI Colloquium\n\n\nAbstract\nMathematical General Relativity is held t
 ogether by a couple of deep conjectures. Many mathematicians like to think
  that by proving these (or finding counterexamples)\, they will finally be
  able to underpin (or challenge) the beliefs that Physicists and Astrophys
 icists have held for decades. Arguably the grandest such example is the ''
 Final State Conjecture'': generic vacuum spacetimes undergoing gravitation
 al collapse will eventually resemble the Kerr solution in their exterior. 
 At present\, there is not a single example of this conjecture\, nor a sing
 le vacuum spacetime with a complete future asymptotic region describing bl
 ack hole formation. I will review what is known\, and describe some work (
 still in progress) with Athanasiou in this direction.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/BHIColloq/2/
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