Joint cosmology seminar at MIT:

Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 2:30 pm
Cosman Seminar Room\\
Center for Theoretical Physics\\
Building 6C, Room 6C-442\\
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

Florian Kuehnel
LMU, Munich

Abstract:

Primordial black holes are black holes that may have formed in the early Universe. Their masses potentially span a range from as low as the Planck mass up to many orders of magnitude above the solar mass. This, in particular, includes black holes recently discovered by LIGO/Virgo, and these may conceivably be primordial in origin. Furthermore, there are now numerous strong hints for compact bodies consistently explaining many astrophysical phenomena as well as dark matter. After a general introduction on the topic, I will talk about those, a possible unified connection, and future detection possibilities.