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Have we already ruled out the possibility of dark matter just being huge numbers of black holes without notable accretion disks?
by Figs 10y ago
Have we already ruled out the possibility of dark matter just being huge numbers of black holes without notable accretion disks?
- pvg 10y ago"It certainly isn’t any ordinary object or particle—that has long since been ruled out" is the first sentence of the second paragraph.
- nol13 10y agoNot completely, but seemingly unlikely. http://resonaances.blogspot.ch/2016/06/black-hole-dark-matter.html http://resonaances.blogspot.ch/2016/06/black-hole-dark-matte...
- Figs 10y agoThanks for the link. Just found this one from NASA as well: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-scientist-suggests-possible-link-between-primordial-black-holes-and-dark-matter https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-scientist-sug... So, it seems like it's still an open possibility, and even better, it might be resolvable one way or the other in the near future -- at least for the primordial black hole hypothesis.