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Is dark matter primordial black holes? If so, could we find them using Apollo-era technology on the moon?
A new paper suggests the answer may be yes to both. I interviewed David Kaiser, one of the paper's co-authors, former student of inflationary cosmology pioneer Alan Guth, and now Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science at MIT.
For the preprint of the full paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2310.16877
and other press about the paper
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n11/david-kaiser/black-hole-flyby
https://news.mit.edu/2024/exotic-black-holes-could-be-dark-matter-byproduct-0606
And some other related papers:
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.231402
arxiv.org/abs/2303.02168
arxiv.org/abs/2312.17217
a timeline is below
00:00 introduction
00:57 primordial black holes
3:05 particle dark matter and modified gravity
6:33 LIGO and EHT
11:03 window of opportunity
15:16 observaitonal signatures
20:30 Apollo era tech
25:19 Star Wars
25:54 the future
Is dark matter primordial black holes? If so, could we find them using Apollo-era technology on the moon?
A new paper suggests the answer may be yes to both. I interviewed David Kaiser, one of the paper's co-authors, former student of inflationary cosmology pioneer Alan Guth, and now Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science at MIT.
For the preprint of the full paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2310.16877
and other press about the paper
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n11/david-kaiser/black-hole-flyby
https://news.mit.edu/2024/exotic-black-holes-could-be-dark-matter-byproduct-0606
And some other related papers:
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.231402
arxiv.org/abs/2303.02168
arxiv.org/abs/2312.17217
a timeline is below
00:00 introduction
00:57 primordial black holes
3:05 particle dark matter and modified gravity
6:33 LIGO and EHT
11:03 window of opportunity
15:16 observaitonal signatures
20:30 Apollo era tech
25:19 Star Wars
25:54 the future
