Scientists have suggested that tiny primordial black holes with the power to hollow out planets could be passing through everyday materials here on earth — rocks, glass, metal, and maybe even you or your cat.
These minuscule black holes created during the Big Bang have thus far remained hypothetical by evading detection. Now, two University at Buffalo scientists are urging researchers to expand their horizons in this hunt.
"We have to think outside of the box because what has been done to find primordial black holes previously hasn't worked," research co-author Dejan Stojkovic said in a statement."The chances of finding these signatures are small, but searching for them would not require much resources, and the potential payoff, the first evidence of a primordial black hole, would be immense!"
