Forget what you thought you knew! Some stars are powerful enough to swallow black holes
The common understanding is that black holes, depending on their size, pull everything nearby into them. However, according to new research, this is not entirely accurate.
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Although there are thousands of studies focusing on the subject of black holes, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics conducted a study using different initial masses for black holes, focusing on primordial black holes, a concept first proposed by Stephen Hawking. According to this, a model was developed suggesting that primordial black holes could be captured by newly forming stars.
COULD THEY BE THE ENEMY OF BLACK HOLES?
According to what we have learned for years, black holes swallow planets and objects drifting in space around them. However, the new study suggests that stars can hunt very small black holes and keep them in their cores.
The scientific community has long debated the idea that a large number of black holes formed shortly after the Big Bang—these are primordial black holes—might still be drifting around the cosmos.
It is also suggested that these primordial black holes could exist within the Sun and thereby contribute to its luminosity.
On the other hand, researchers from Max Planck created simulations showing the development of Hawking stars. Here, Hawking stars are thought to be newly forming stars that could potentially capture primordial black holes.
This view may offer a potential explanation for the existence of dark matter.
Selma de Mink, director of the department at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, says, "We don't even know if such primordial black holes exist, but we can still conduct an interesting thought experiment."
According to this view, the Sun will eventually become a small black hole.
The theory reveals the consequences of such black holes in stars, their effects on stellar evolution, and the investigation of the observable results of their existence.
The study showed that such an evolution of the Sun could cause it to dim to half its brightness for an estimated 100 million years due to energy produced by accretion that suppresses nuclear reactions.