{"id":237007,"date":"2026-05-12T22:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/what-if-dark-matter-is-just-black-holes"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:07:27","slug":"what-if-dark-matter-is-just-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/what-if-dark-matter-is-just-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qy8MdewY_TY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE\">http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE<\/a><br \/> \u2193 More info below \u2193<\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/> \/ pbsspacetime.<\/p>\n<p>It may be that for every star in the universe there are billions of microscopic black holes streaming through the solar system, the planet, even our bodies every second. Sounds horrible \u2014 but hey, at least we\u2019d have explained dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>Want a very deep understanding of Black Holes? Check out the Black Hole playlist:<br \/> \u2022 Black Holes.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/what-if-dark-matter-is-just-black-holes\">Continue reading \u201cWhat If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE \u2193 More info below \u2193 Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! \/ pbsspacetime. It may be that for every star in the universe there are billions of microscopic black holes streaming through the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237007","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}