1998/01/01 by Neven Bilić, Neven Bilic, D. Tsiklauri +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Neutrino Physics Research #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0146-6410(98)00004-0
published as Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 40 (1998) 17 · 10 pages, LaTex, 4 postscript figures
openalex publication_date 1998/01/01 · arxiv created 1998/05/20 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In the framework of the Thomas-Fermi model at finite temperature, we show that a cooling nondegenerate gas of massive neutrinos will undergo a phase transition in which quasi-degenerate supermassive neutrino stars are formed through gravitational collapse. For neutrinos in the mass range of 10 to 25 keV these compact dark objects could mimic the role of supermassive black holes that are usually assumed to exist at the centres galaxies. Astrophysical implications and constraints on the neutrino mass are discussed for this scenario.