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Interesting to see computational constraints of what many have idly speculated about. I hope we'll see more observation data in future, both on neutrinos and perhaps direct observation of an evaporation chirp.

The KM3NeT experiment has recently observed a neutrino with an energy around 100,PeV, and IceCube has detected five neutrinos with energies above 1,PeV. While there are no known astrophysical sources, exploding primordial black holes could have produced these high-energy neutrinos. For Schwarzschild black holes this interpretation results in tensions between the burst rates inferred from the KM3NeT and IceCube observations, with indirect constraints from the extragalactic gamma ray background and with the non-observation of an associated gamma ray signal at LHAASO. In this letter we show that if there is a population of primordial black holes charged under a new dark 𝑢⁡(1) symmetry which spend most of their time in a quasi-extremal state, the neutrino emission at 1,PeV may be more suppressed than at 100,PeV. The burst rates implied by the KM3NeT and IceCube observations and the indirect constraints can then all be consistent at 1⁢𝜎, and no associated gamma-ray signal was expected at LHAASO. Furthermore, these black holes could constitute all of the observed dark matter in the universe.

Neat. The story has been getting around though IDK how convincing anyone finds it.