{"id":191729,"date":"2024-06-24T22:29:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T03:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-research-challenges-black-holes-as-dark-matter-explanation"},"modified":"2024-06-24T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T03:29:52","slug":"new-research-challenges-black-holes-as-dark-matter-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-research-challenges-black-holes-as-dark-matter-explanation","title":{"rendered":"New research challenges black holes as dark matter explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-challenges-black-holes-as-dark-matter-explanation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The detailed calculations demonstrate that black holes of 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+masses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar masses<\/a> may comprise at most 1.2% of dark matter, 100 solar mass black holes\u20143.0% of dark matter, and 1,000 solar mass black holes\u201411% of dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur observations indicate that primordial black holes cannot comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter, and simultaneously, explain the observed black hole merger rates measured by LIGO and Virgo,\u201d says Prof. Udalski.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, other explanations are needed for massive <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/black+holes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">black holes<\/a> detected by LIGO and Virgo. According to one hypothesis, they formed as a product of the evolution of massive, low-metallicity stars. Another possibility involves mergers of less massive objects in dense stellar environments, such as globular clusters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detailed calculations demonstrate that black holes of 10 solar masses may comprise at most 1.2% of dark matter, 100 solar mass black holes\u20143.0% of dark matter, and 1,000 solar mass black holes\u201411% of dark matter. \u201cOur observations indicate that primordial black holes cannot comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter, and simultaneously, explain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}