[CraigS]

Originally Posted by Robh

I was reading this article form 6 years ago ...
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/fe...s/14may04.html

Of particular note are the last two paragraphs.

Hmm … I would think this to be a leading contender for the Hot Dark Matter (HDM) candidate. The smaller the hole gets, (due to evaporation), the hotter it gets, hence I think this would be considered an HDM theory.
The HDM idea is still in contention, I think although Cold Dark Matter seems to still be favoured.
CDM has problems still though … the cuspy halo and missing satellites problems … swings of the pendulum it seems !

Originally Posted by Robh

Also, more recently ...
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24956/

Frampton talks of two inflationary periods.

Regards, Rob

Hmm interesting again.
Thats a pretty big range !! …

So the conclusion is that dark matter is made up of black holes with a mass of between 10^6 and 10^-8 solar masses.

also ..

However Frampton's ideas can be better tested by looking for evidence of these primordial black holes, which should cause microlensing events: ie their gravity should focus the light from stars behind them as seen from Earth.

There's been quite a lot of development in the microlensing research field, this year I believe. We should keep an eye out for more words on this in the future.

Interesting stuff !

Perhaps we just live inside a black hole .. that make us all holograms, eh ?


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