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Shing-Chi Leung

1 articles · 4 co-authors · latest: 2026-06-05

Dark Matter's Invisible Sparks: Tiny Black Holes as Stellar Detonators

What if dark matter isn’t just passive, but can actually ignite stars? New research simulates white dwarf explosions triggered by the passage of a primordial black hole—a candidate for dark matter. Hydrodynamic simulations and nucleosynthesis calculations of 495 isotopes show that such Type Ia super
arXiv:2606.07505v2 · 2026-06-05