Novel Approach to the Dark Matter Problem: Primordial Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

2016/04/14 by Frampton, Paul H.
#FOS: Physical sciences #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1604.05207

Abstract

A discussion at a Scientific American level of the idea that the constituents of the dark mater in galactic halos are primordial intermediate-mass black holes with masses between ten and one hundred thousand times the solar mass.

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