Yep, it’s a super cool concept. A black hole of a given size has a finite amount of matter that it can ingest over a period of time. Trying to stuff more matter into it causes an outward pressure from essentially the friction of the swirling mass of material falling in. This radiation pressure could in theory be great enough to start fusion as would happen in a stellar core.
Also fun is that this puts a limit on the largest possible black hole we should ever see in the universe. If you assume a black hole formed a moment after matter condensed and then ingested the maximum possible from then until now, you get an upper bound for the largest possible black hole according to our current understanding of the universe. This limit is somewhere around 36 billion solar masses.
a tokomok involving a scale appropriate blackhole is a super cool concept that just came to mind
Couldn't those large black holes merge though to get bigger ones?