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Caption: Figure 9.
Growth trajectories MBH(t) for PBHs with initial masses M0 = 10−17–10−10 M⊙ embedded in the solar core (color scale, from light to dark green). Trajectories are trimmed at 0.01 M⊙. PBHs with M0 ≳ 10−16 M⊙ reach this threshold within a Hubble time; lighter PBHs stall in the hot Bondi regime. Horizontal colored bands indicate the accretion regimes from Section 3.1. Vertical lines mark the solar age (t⊙ = 4.6 Gyr) and the Hubble time (tH = 13.7 Gyr).
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