‘Supercharged rhino’ black holes may have formed and died a second after the Big Bang

A black circle outlined with a white swirl in a sea of red, blue, yellow and green blobs

Small, primordial black holes that formed in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang may have had company, in the form of even smaller supercharged black holes with the mass of a rhinoceros that quickly evaporated. A team of researchers has theorized that these tiny rhino black holes, which would represent an … Read more

At the dawn of time: MIT physicists link dark matter to ‘supercharged’ microscopic black holes

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Image of a primordial black hole forming amid a sea of ​​hot, color-charged quarks and gluons a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Credit: Kaća Bradonjić According to the researchers, the universe could have produced microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge in the first quintillionth of a second. MIT … Read more