Gravitationally collapsed objects of very low mass
Abstract
It is suggested that there may be a large number of gravitationally collapsed objects of mass io- g upwards which were formed as a result of fluctuations in the early Universe. They could carry an electric charge of up to I 30 electron units. Such objects would produce distinctive tracks in bubble chambers and could form atoms with orbiting electrons or protons. A mass of 1017 g of such objects could have accumulated at the centre of a star like the Sun. If such a star later became a neutron star there would be a steady accretion of matter by a central collapsed object which could eventually swallow up the whole star in about ten million years.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- 1971
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/152.1.75
- Bibcode:
- 1971MNRAS.152...75H