Upper limits on the size of a primordial black hole
- 10 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 71 (10), 104009
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.71.104009
Abstract
We provide precise constraints on the size of any black holes forming in the early Universe for a variety of formation scenarios. In particular, we prove that the size of the apparent horizon of a primordial black hole formed by causal processes in a flat Friedmann universe is considerably smaller than the cosmological apparent horizon size for an equation of state (). This also applies for a stiff equation of state () or for a massless scalar field. The apparent horizon of a primordial black hole formed through hydrodynamical processes is also considerably smaller than the cosmological apparent horizon for . We derive an expression for the maximum size which an overdense region can have without being a separate closed universe rather than part of our own. Newtonian argument shows that a black hole smaller than the cosmological horizon can never accrete much.
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