19 October 2023
AlbaNova Main Building
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Is Dark Matter Primordial Black Holes?

Not scheduled
30m
AlbaNova Main Building

AlbaNova Main Building

Speaker

Prof. Anne Green (University of Nottingham)

Description

Historically the most popular dark matter candidates have been new elementary particles, such as WIMPs and axions. However Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), black holes formed from over-densities in the early Universe, are another possibility. The discovery of gravitational waves from mergers of ~10 Solar mass black hole binaries by LIGO-Virgo has generated a surge in interest in PBH dark matter. I will overview the formation of PBHs, observational probes of their abundance and the key open questions in the field.

Primary author

Prof. Anne Green (University of Nottingham)

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