Cosmic bombshells

• Autores: Marcus Chown
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2955, 2014, págs. 41-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Chown explains how the explosive black holes that lit the early universe could explain where its mass is hiding today. The interest in black hole bombs is not just confined to dark matter. Observations of stellar-mass and supermassive black holes can also spin. One process that could have caused the density within a given space in the early universe to be higher than average, and so have created them, is a change of state akin to the transition from steam to liquid water that liberates a lot of heat energy. Evidence for such changes of state is eagerly sought, as they would take humans beyond the standard model of particle physics to a new and deeper level of understanding.