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Hawking Radiation from non-evaporating primordial black holes cannot enable the formation of direct collapse black holes
Jonathan Regan, Marios Kalomenopoulos, Kelly Kosmo O'Neil
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The formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early Universe is a subject of significant debate. In this study, we examine whether non-evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs) can offer a solution. We establish initial constraints on the range of PBH masses that correspond to Hawking radiation (HR) effective temperatures in the range needed to suppress H₂ cooling, which would facilitate the formation of massive black hole seeds in atomic cooling halos. We also investigate the specific intensity of the HR from non-evaporating PBHs and compare it with the critical radiation needed for direct collapse black holes (DCBHs). We show that HR from non-evaporating PBHs cannot serve as an irradiating mechanism to facilitate the formation of the seeds for the SMBHs we observe in the high-redshift Universe unless, perhaps, the PBHs within the relevant mass range comprise a significant fraction of dark matter and are significantly clustered towards the center of the primordial halo.
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