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Re:New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black ... by sbierwagen on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:55PM (#21423608)
Here's a Hawking radiation calculator that you can use to get an idea of some of the numbers involved: https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...

Using this calculator, we find that a black hole with the mass of 433 Eros, 6.687E15 kg, would be quite hot, some 18 million kelvin, but emitting just 8 watts of power, and be 0.009 nanometres in radius. Pretty hard to find.

Let's try something smaller. 162173 Ryugu, the rock that Hayabusa2 landed on, is only 4.5E11 kg. This gives you a much brighter hole: 1758 megawatts at 2.72657E11 kelvin.

Interestingly, this may make it harder to detect! Its blackbody emission peak is at 9,211 KeV, and the Chandra X-Ray observatory only goes up to 10 KeV. (Focusing very-high-energy photons is not easy) You'd have to detect it from the fraction of total power it emits lower down in the spectrum.

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