Talk:Primordial black hole

Grams?

This article measures mass in both g and kg. We should pick one unit and adjust the others to match. I suggest kg, since I've never seen grams used to measure a mass greater than a few kg. (Similar to how the distance from New York to Chicago is measured in kilometers or miles, never meters or yards.) Piojo (talk) 01:50, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Astroparticle Physics

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in fiction

In case there's ever an "in fiction" section, I'll mention two stories by Larry Niven: "The Borderland of Sol" (1976) and "The Hole Man" (1975). —Tamfang (talk) 05:09, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

In "Borderland", iirc, someone guessed that the Tunguska event was the passage of a black hole, traced its likely trajectory, found it and made use of it. —Tamfang (talk) 05:06, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

And a short novel by Greg Egan, Perihelion Summer (2019?). —Tamfang (talk) 00:04, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Planet 9

I'm on the fence as to whether including this would be WP:UNDUE weight: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-planet-primordial-black-hole.html I'll leave it here for a while asking for guidance. Sandizer (talk) 00:11, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Preprints to add after peer review

What it says on the tin; just putting these here to remember to check in on later:

• Oncins (2022) "Constraints on PBH as dark matter from observations: a review", comes with a video
• Bernard Carr et al. (2023) "Observational Evidence for Primordial Black Holes: A Positivist Perspective"
• Su, Li, and Feng (2023) "An inflation model for massive primordial black holes to interpret the JWST observations"
• Depta et al. (2023) "Do pulsar timing arrays observe merging primordial black holes?"

All four are pretty juicy, which is why I'm a bit reluctant to add until they pass review. Sandizer (talk) 02:21, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Carr et al. (2024) made it into Physics Reports: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157323003976 -- very ambitious with 68 pages and 451 references! It sort of calls itself a review in the first sentence of the Abstract, and I don't see how anyone could argue. Sandizer (talk) 10:36, 15 February 2024 (UTC)