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Invisible Black Holes: Planets or Something Else? ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Probing for primordial black hole candidates in exoplanet search data"
arXiv:2512.03118 · 2025-12-02 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · General Relativity Exoplanets Instrumentation
Some exoplanets might be primordial black holes — invisible, ultra-dense objects from the dawn of time.
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Some 'planets' might turn out to be tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang. Astronomers have spotted strange stellar wobbles — but nobody has ever seen the culprits themselves. If these really are primordial black holes, scientists have found a way to peer into the mysteries of dark matter.

🎯 A primordial black hole with Earth’s mass would fit inside a grape — its diameter is just 9 millimeters.

Scientists
Christian DopplerD. B. McLaughlinDidier QuelozMichel MayorR. A. RossiterStephen Hawking
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black hole dark matter exoplanet spectroscopy transit method
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Doppler effectHawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyKepler's third lawEinstein field equations
Original: arXiv:2512.03118 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds