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Comment on "Quantum-Mechanical Suppression of Gas Accretion by Primordial Black Holes"

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-09-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

It was recently claimed (arXiv:2409.09081v1 [astro-ph.HE]) that accretion of ordinary matter on black holes of mass (6×10144×1019)(6\times 10^{14}-4\times10^{19})\,g would be inhibited by quantum mechanical effects, namely the de Broglie wavelength of the electron being larger than the Schwarzschild radius. However the conclusion is based on considering accretion of a single atom over the age of the Universe. There is no suppression of the accretion rate per atom on such black holes.

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@article{arxiv.2409.12989,
  title  = {Comment on "Quantum-Mechanical Suppression of Gas Accretion by Primordial Black Holes"},
  author = {James M. Cline},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12989},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

1 page. Comment on arXiv:2409.09081