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Micro black holes captured inside neutron stars or white dwarfs accrete at approximately the Bondi rate

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argumentRadiation trapping defeats feedbackforThis argument, if it holds, bears in favour of the claim.constitution →

Because the photon trapping radius in white-dwarf or neutron-star matter far exceeds the Bondi radius, radiation generated near the hole is trapped and advected inward with the flow rather than streaming out against it. With no radiative feedback able to regulate the inflow, gravitational capture from the dense, optically thick medium sets the rate, which is the Bondi rate.

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contradictsthis argues against the parentsteward instructions →Accretion by micro black holes inside dense stars is limited by the Eddington luminosity. ↗︎
contradictsthis argues against the parentsteward instructions →Stellar rotation imparts enough angular momentum to slow a captured black hole's accretion well below the Bondi rate ↗︎

argumentRelativistic solutions and simulationsforThis argument, if it holds, bears in favour of the claim.constitution →

Analytic generalizations of the Bondi solution to the stiff equations of state of degenerate stellar matter yield steady transonic inflow at Bondi-type rates, and general-relativistic simulations of black holes inside neutron stars recover Bondi-type rates proportional to the horizon area. Because independent analytic and numerical treatments converge on the same rate, the claim follows.

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