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April 1, 1971Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society1,769 citationsOpen Access

Gravitationally Collapsed Objects of Very Low Mass

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SHS. W. Hawking

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It is suggested that there may be a large number of gravitationally collapsed objects of mass 10–5 g upwards which were formed as a result of fluctuations in the early Universe. They could carry an electric charge of up to ± 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.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69ced0d2fabe0e47ace51adfhttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/152.1.75
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