In the presence of a minimal length physical objects cannot collapse to an
infinite density, singular, matter point. In this note 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 "non-commutative 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's equation which smoothly interpolates between Minkowski geometry near
the center of the shell and Schwarzschild spacetime far away from the matter
layer. The metric is curvature singularity free. Black hole type solutions
exist only for "heavy" shells, i.e. Mβ₯Meβ, where Meβ 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.Comment: v2: 13 pages, 5 figures (1 figure added), text edited, additional
references, in press on the special issue "Experimental Tests of Quantum
Gravity and Exotic Quantum Field Theory Effects'' of Adv. High En. Phy