
Extra: Did black holes create dark matter?
2 July - 14 minsWe recently got an email in from a listener to the show about a topic they thought we should cover, and we’d encourage you to get in touch too if there is something you’d like to learn more about – [email protected]. The email was from Dr John Regan, the Royal Society - SFI University Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University.
He said: “One of the postdocs in my group recently published a paper on Primordial Black Holes left over from the Big Bang being possible ‘seeds’ for super massive black holes. The JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) has, over the last two-three years, been discovering way more and way more massive black holes than was expected....