About
While black holes can be the remnants of stellar collapse, some may have formed in the early universe - making them primordial black holes (PBHs). These would form a relic from the early universe, preserving a memory of the initial conditions of the universe at early times and on small scales. PBHs do not require the introduction of new fundamental physics, making them a special dark matter candidate. In this talk, I will outline observational constraints on PBHs and potential routes to a detection, explore their connections to gravitational wave signals and early universe cosmology, and discuss how the evaporation of primordial black holes could produce high-energy particles.
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The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Speaker
- Christian Byrnes
- Year
- 2026
- Language
- English
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
- Who can watch
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