Tag: Gravitational wave
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Is dark matter locked up in primordial black holes?
To be honest, I have an issue with both “dark matter” and “dark energy” – they both look like close-to-metaphysical constructs to me: we have a hole where theory and observation do not match so we’ll invent this latter-day phlogiston and call it “dark”. Then again, I’m not really qualified to comment and it is…
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Reading something shocking
I wonder if there is any major part of physics that has changed so fundamentally in the last thirty years as cosmology. Back in 1987 cosmology was more or less the last module we were taught as part of the astrophysics degree. But what we were taught then seems like basic arithmetic compared to today’s…