TY - JOUR A1 - Nicolini, Piero A1 - Orlandi, Alessio A1 - Spallucci, Euro T1 - The final stage of gravitationally collapsed thick matter layers T2 - Advances in high energy physics N2 - In the presence of a minimal length, physical objects cannot collapse to an infinite density, singular, matter point. In this paper, we consider the possible final stage of the gravitational collapse of "thick" matter layers. The energy momentum tensor we choose to model these shell-like objects is a proper modification of the source for "noncommutative geometry inspired," regular black holes. By using higher momenta of Gaussian distribution to localize matter at finite distance from the origin, we obtain new solutions of the Einstein equation which smoothly interpolates between Minkowski's geometry near the center of the shell and Schwarzschild’s spacetime far away from the matter layer. The metric is curvature singularity free. Black hole type solutions exist only for "heavy" shells; that is, M >= Me, where Me is the mass of the extremal configuration. We determine the Hawking temperature and a modified area law taking into account the extended nature of the source. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36624 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-366242 SN - 1687-7365 N1 - Copyright © 2013 Piero Nicolini et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. VL - 2013 IS - Article ID 812084 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Hindawi CY - New York, NY ER -