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Constraint on Black Hole in the Universe

An important feature about black hole was proved by Hawking [22]. Black hole emit radiation and therefore are not really black. They radiate high energy particles; they evaporate.

The evaporation time (in seconds) is given by where M is in g (like always for that kind of data). To evaporate now, a primordial black hole must have a mass of . There is no particular reason for a black hole to evaporate now but if one does, then we will be able to observe it. This will give a lot of data on black holes and also for high energy particle physics.

As a result of that evaporation   we can have a lot of observable effect of black hole. Then constraint on black hole mass come from very various observations such as the microwave background , entropy production ... This lead to a very complete set of constraints that you can see in the table gif

  
Table: Constraint on the mass spectrum of primordial black hole.

A good way to visualize how all the result from the different sets of data can be put together is shown in the figure gif (for more detail about it see [29]).

  
Figure: Upper limit on the fraction of the universe that form primordial black hole of that mass from different kind of measurement. M is normalized to gramme

In that figure there are data from the measurement of the total density parameter , the -ray background, the primordial helium He and Deuterium D abundances and the photon-to-baryon ratio S.



Peggy Varniere
Fri Jul 24 11:57:38 EDT 1998