Supermassive Black Holes as Giant Bose-Einstein Condensates

dc.creatorNieuwenhuizen, Theo M.
dc.date2008-07-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:52:13Z
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dc.descriptionThe Schwarzschild metric has a divergent energy density at the horizon, which motivates a new approach to black holes. If matter is spread uniformly throughout the interior of a supermassive black hole, with mass $M\sim M_\star= 2.34 10^8M_\odot$, it may arise from a Bose-Einstein condensate of densely packed H-atoms. Within the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation with a positive cosmological constant, a bosonic quantum field is coupled to the curvature scalar. In the Bose-Einstein condensed groundstate an exact, selfconsistent solution for the metric is presented. It is regular with a specific shape at the origin. The redshift at the horizon is finite but large, $z\sim 10^{14}$$M_\star/M$. The binding energy remains as an additional parameter to characterize the BH; alternatively, the mass observed at infinity can be any fraction of the rest mass of its constituents.
dc.description6 pages, no figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0315
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0315
dc.identifierEurophys.Lett.83:10008,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1209/0295-5075/83/10008
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/204155
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleSupermassive Black Holes as Giant Bose-Einstein Condensates
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