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Primordial charged giants: a new cosmic object examined and constrained
Claudio Corianò, Paul H. Frampton, Leonardo Torcellini
May 18, 2026
Astrons are hypothetical primordial compact objects carrying enormous electric charge — roughly 10^32 coulombs packed into a trillion-solar-mass body separated from neighbors by megaparsecs. Analyzed across charge generation, plasma screening, Reissner-Nordström geometry, and gravitational lensing, the fiducial parameters push astrons into a super-extremal regime that lacks a photon sphere, and their interaction energy scales like radiation, producing no late-time cosmic acceleration. A horizon-mass argument places their formation months after the Big Bang, making any link to early JWST-observed structures indirect at best. Surviving as a cosmological actor would require inhomogeneous Einstein-Maxwell averaging well beyond standard FLRW treatment.
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