Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
For one brief shining moment after the 2015 detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, astronomers held out hope that the universe's mysterious dark matter might consist of a plenitude of black holes sprinkled throughout the universe.
UC Berkeley physicists have dashed those hopes.
Based on a statistical analysis of 740 of the brightest supernovas discovered as of 2014, and the fact that none of them appear to be magnified or brightened by hidden black hole "gravitational lenses," the researchers concluded that primordial black holes can make up no more than about 40 percent of the dark matter in the universe. Primordial black holes could only have been created within the first milliseconds of the Big Bang as regions of the universe with a concentrated mass tens or hundreds of times that of the sun collapsed into objects a hundred kilometers across.
The results suggest that none of the universe's dark matter consists of heavy black holes, or any similar object, including massive compact halo objects, so-called MACHOs.
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Wednesday October 10 2018, @09:18PM
>predict - observe - extrapolate
i prefer embrace extend and extinguish, but we can give it a spin
predict> the missing dark matter is gonna be somewhere, either in the universe or conceptually in the mathematical demonstration that it was a fudge factor.
observe> ur mom
extrapolate> everybody has a mom - VIABLE HYPOTHESIS FOUND
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