Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Abstract
A new final endpoint of complete gravitational collapse is proposed. By extending the concept of Bose–Einstein condensation to gravitational systems, a static, spherically symmetric solution to Einstein’s equations is obtained, characterized by an interior de Sitter region of p=−ρ gravitational vacuum condensate and an exterior Schwarzschild geometry of arbitrary total mass M. These are separated by a phase boundary with a small but finite thickness ℓ, replacing both the Schwarzschild and de Sitter classical horizons. The resulting collapsed cold, compact object has no singularities, no event horizons, and a globally defined Killing time. Its entropy is maximized under small fluctuations and is given by the standard hydrodynamic entropy of the thin shell, which is of order kBℓMc/ℏ, instead of the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy, SBH=4πkBGM2/ℏc. Unlike BHs, a collapsed star of this kind is consistent with quantum theory, thermodynamically stable, and suffers from no information paradox.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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