Gravitational Collapse and Black Hole Formation in a Braneworld

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In this thesis we present the first numerical study of gravitational collapse in braneworlds within the framework of the single brane model proposed by Randall and Sundrum (RSII).

• We directly show that the evolutions of sufficiently strong initial data configurations result in black holes (BHs) with finite extension into the bulk.
• The extension changes from sphere to pancake (or cigar, seen from a different perspective) as the size of BH increases.
• We find preliminary evidences that BHs of the same size generated from distinct initial data profiles are geometrically indistinguishable.