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Gravothermal Collapse

Peer-Reviewed Study Models Early-Universe Collapse Into Primordial Black Holes and Exotic Stars

The authors describe a brief post‑inflation matter phase enabling gravothermal collapse of self‑interacting halos, producing objects that either evaporate early or survive at asteroid masses as possible dark matter.