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Could We Find Primordial Black Holes in the Solar System?


One possible explanation for dark matter is primordial black holes. These are lower-mass black holes formed in the first moments of the universe when the conditions were hot and dense. If there are asteroid-mass black holes floating through the cosmos, a few might be here in the solar system. The only way to detect them would be to measure their gravitational interactions with planets and other asteroids. Is our current technology up to the task?

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