Primordial Black Holes Could Solve Major Mysteries — If They Exist

Theories state that some black holes could have formed within the first second of the Big Bang.

By Alison Klesman
Jul 10, 2019 10:00 PMDec 23, 2019 6:16 AM
Black Hole - NASA
An artist’s illustration of a black hole. (Credit: NASA/ESA and G. Bacon, STScI)

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All the black holes that astronomers have seen fall into one of three categories: stellar-mass black holes, intermediate-mass black holes, and supermassive black holes. Each is more massive than our Sun and formed at least hundreds of thousands of years after the Big Bang, as our universe grew and evolved.

But there is another type of black hole astronomers haven’t yet seen, but think could exist. These are primordial black holes.

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