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by sebzim4500 1040 days ago
>So they are more likely to form than small black holes.

This certainly does not follow from the rest of your comment. I'm pretty sure it's false.

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I think the claim is like this: You have the primordial universe, shortly after the big bang, with fluctuations in density. But the whole density is very high. A fluctuation over a large region could put the region over the threshold to become a black hole, because the density required for that to happen is lower than for a small region.

Mind you, I don't know if this actually works. What was the density of the early universe, compared to the density required to form a black hole? How large were the fluctuations? Is this scenario plausible at all?

I suppose that if you go back close enough to the big bang, then you can get a density high enough. But then, if you go back not much farther, shouldn't the whole universe have formed a black hole? And if it didn't, can we trust the logic that says that the situation should have led to the formation of giant black holes?

They may have included the effect of black hole evaporation here? Small black holes evaporates much quicker and won't survive.
I guess, but even a solar mass black hole would take 10^64 years to evaporate