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Astrophysics

gravitational collapse of a gas cloud when its self-gravity overcomes internal pressure above a critical mass or size.

In astrophysics, Jeans instability refers to gravitational collapse of a gas cloud when its self-gravity overcomes internal pressure above a critical mass or size. This meaning comes from Jeans (1902) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character.[1]

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  1. Jeans, J. H. (1902). The stability of a spherical nebula. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character, 199(312-320), 1-53. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1902.0012

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