Leonardo Torcellini

In the searing plasma of the newborn Universe, when space itself still rang with the echo of the Big Bang, objects may have emerged that challenge gravity itself. Not ordinary black holes — but electrically charged giants, astrons.

Just after the Big Bang, clumps weighing as much as a trillion Suns and with an electric charge of colossal strength, like trillions of electrified balloons, could have drifted through space.