Vaidya

The Vaidya metric is the simple example of a radiating black hole, where the mass of the black hole is given as a function of time.

1. History

2. Topology

3. Metrics and coordinates

Outgoing metric :

$$ds^2 = -(1 - \frac{2 M(u)}{r}) du^2 - 2 du dr + r^2 (d\theta + \sin^2 \theta d\varphi^2)$$

Ingoing metric :

$$ds^2 = -(1 - \frac{2 M(v)}{r}) du^2 + 2 dv dr + r^2 (d\theta + \sin^2 \theta d\varphi^2)$$

4. Tensor quantities

5. Symmetries

6. Stress-energy tensor

7. Curves

8. Equations

9. Causal structure

10. Asymptotic structure

11. Energy conditions

12. Limits and related spacetimes

13. Misc.

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