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Accretion of Primordial Black Holes in Stellar Interiors

  • Authors: Matteo Cantiello, Ore Gottlieb, Cameron Norton, Matthew Kleban, Ken Van Tilburg

Matteo Cantiello et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1010 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Steady-state radial profiles from the time-dependent Euler solver for MBH = 10−16, 10−13, and 10−11 M⊙. (a) Temperature, (b) infall velocity, (c) density, and (d) Mach number as a function of r/rS. Dashed gray lines show the adiabatic Bondi solution. The vertical dashed line marks rB. The thin horizontal dashed lines mark the ambient density ρ∞ = 150 g cm−3 in panel (c) and the sonic condition ﹩{ \mathcal M }=1﹩ in panel (d). The transition from near-adiabatic (low mass) to nearly isothermal (high mass) flow is evident in the temperature panel, while the density and velocity profiles show the enhanced accretion rate in the isothermal limit.

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