Compact stars in Eddington inspired gravity

Understand

A new, Eddington inspired theory of gravity was recently proposed by Banados and Ferreira.

• It is equivalent to General Relativity in vacuum, but differs from it inside matter.
• This viable, one parameter theory was shown to avoid cosmological singularities and turns out to lead to many other exciting new features that we report here.
• First, for a positive coupling parameter, the field equations have a dramatic impact on the collapse of dust, and do not lead to singularities.