Celestial Objects as Asymmetric Dark Matter Detectors

Non-annihilating dark matter particles, owing to their interactions with the ordinary baryonic matter, can efficiently accumulate inside celestial objects. For heavy dark matter, they gravitate towards the core of the celestial objects, thermalize in a small core region, and eventually form tiny black holes via core collapse, eventually transmuting the host objects to low mass black holes. We demonstrate that the existence of a variety of celestial objects provides stringent constraints on strongly-interacting heavy dark matter, a blind-spot for the terrestrial dark matter detectors as well as for the cosmological probes. Celestial objects with larger size and lower core temperature, such as Jupiter, are the most optimal detectors to probe strongly-interacting heavy asymmetric dark matter. We also show that such transmuted low mass black holes can be probed in the existing GW data.