There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, ...

PBHs would have much less mass than the stellar black holes later formed by dying stars, but they would still be extremely dense, like the mass of a mountain compacted into an area the size of an atom ...

Here’s how it works. Minuscule black holes that can hollow out entire planets could be tunneling through objects on Earth, according to a wild new theoretical study. These hypothetical space ...

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever ...

"We have to think outside of the box because what has been done to find primordial black holes previously hasn't worked." Scientists have suggested that tiny primordial black holes with the power ...

Scientists have suggested that tiny primordial black holes with the power to hollow out planets could be passing through everyday materials here on earth — rocks, glass, metal, and maybe even ...

A theoretical study suggests that small black holes born in the early universe ... wondered if a PBH ever became trapped within a planet, moon or asteroid, either during or after its formation.

More information: De-Chang Dai et al, Searching for small primordial black holes in planets, asteroids and here on Earth, Physics of the Dark Universe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2024.101662 ...