Evaporating black holes: Constraints on anomalous emission mechanisms

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Hawking radiation of astrophysical black holes is minute and thought to be unobservable. However, different mechanisms could contribute to an anomalously high emission rate: extra dimensions, new "dark" families of bosons or fermions, or a lower fundamental Planck scale. Do black holes flood the Universe with gravitational waves via mass loss? Here, we show that the formation of black hole binaries and the absence of a stochastic background of gravitational waves can limit the emission rate to vertical bar(M) over dot vertical bar less than or similar to 10(-15) M-circle dot/yr (vertical bar(M) over dot vertical bar less than or similar to 10(-13) M-circle dot/yr), when the mass loss branching ratio to gravitons is unity (10(-2)). This constraint is up to seven orders of magnitude more stringent than hounds from resolvable inspiralling binaries.

Original languageEnglish
Article number124024
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume104
Issue number12
Number of pages7
ISSN2470-0010
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Dec 2021
Externally publishedYes

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  • HIERARCHY, RATES, MASS, DIMENSIONS, EVOLUTION, STARS

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