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The 30 pages that link to Gravitational collapse, each with the reason it gives.

• Galaxy clusterRelated: It drives the formation of dense regions that become galaxy clusters.

• Jeans instabilityNarrower topic: Growing Jeans-unstable disturbances can develop into large-scale collapse.

• PlanetesimalRelated: Dense particle clumps can collapse into planetesimals.

• Gravitational binding energyCompared with: Collapse releases gravitational energy, reversing the work required to disperse matter.

• ProtostarRelated: It begins the dense, central condensation that develops into a protostar.

• Solar System formationRelated: Collapse initiated the formation of the Sun and its surrounding disk.

• Solar nebulaRelated: Gravity drove the nebula’s contraction and concentrated most of its mass at the center.

• Accretion (astrophysics)Compared with: Collapse concentrates a cloud; accretion subsequently adds matter to a central object.

• Primordial black holeRelated: Primordial black holes form when early-universe overdensities collapse beyond their pressure support.

• Schwarzschild radiusRelated: Collapse can concentrate mass inside its Schwarzschild radius.

• Cosmic censorship hypothesisNarrower topic: The conjecture concerns singularities produced by this process.

• Nebular hypothesisRelated: Collapse initiated the transformation of the Solar System's cloud into a compact system.

• Neutron degeneracy pressureCompared with: It is the competing process that neutron degeneracy pressure can resist, but not always halt.

• Star formation efficiencyRelated: Collapse gathers cloud gas into the dense structures that form stars.

• Bok globuleRelated: A globule can contract when gravity overcomes pressure and other forms of support.

• John Archibald WheelerRelated: Wheeler made the end states of stellar collapse a central problem in relativistic astrophysics.

• Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limitCompared with: Exceeding the stable mass threshold makes collapse the expected outcome.

• Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanismCompared with: Collapse can initiate energy release; the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism describes radiative energy from slower contraction.

• Raychaudhuri equationRelated: The equation helped make precise how gravity drives converging paths during collapse.

• Substellar objectRelated: It can form substellar bodies directly, without a protoplanetary disk.

• No-hair theoremRelated: The theorem's physical interpretation is that collapse leaves no formation history in the settled exterior.

• Penrose–Hawking singularity theoremsRelated: Penrose showed that collapse producing a trapped surface forces geodesic incompleteness under suitable assumptions.

• Structure formationRelated: It turns growing overdensities into bound halos and other nonlinear structures.

• Sub-brown dwarfRelated: This star-like formation route can create free-floating objects below the brown-dwarf range.

• Interstellar cloudRelated: Collapse can turn dense cloud regions into protostars.

• Young stellar objectRelated: It begins the cloud-to-star transformation that produces young stellar objects.

• Buchdahl's theoremRelated: The bound distinguishes permitted static configurations from collapse toward a horizon.

• Formation and evolution of stars and galaxiesRelated: Dense regions collapse to form protostars and contribute to the growth of galaxies.

• Minor-planet moonRelated: Collapsing debris clouds can form paired or multiple minor-planet components.

• White holeRelated: Known collapse processes form black holes rather than the time-reversed white holes of idealized solutions.