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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

Caption: Figure 4.

Schematic of the radiative feedback mechanism on the Bondi boundary conditions. Accretion luminosity Lacc produced near the PBH (central black circle) escapes the Bondi sphere (blue circle; radius rB) and is absorbed by the ambient stellar plasma just outside it, raising the local temperature from T∞ to T∞ + ΔT (orange shading). The deposited energy is transported outward by photon diffusion (brown dashed arrows) and when the radiative gradient exceeds the adiabatic gradient, by convection modeled via mixing-length theory (MLT; red circulation loops). Gray arrows indicate the infalling gas that feeds the Bondi flow. The resulting temperature enhancement reduces the effective sound speed contrast and moderates the accretion rate.

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