Neutron stars could be capturing primordial black holes

The Milky Way has a missing pulsar problem in its core. Astronomers have tried to explain this for years. One of the more interesting ideas comes from a team of astronomers in Europe and invokes dark matter, neutron stars, and primordial black holes (PBHs).

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Neutron stars could be capturing primordial black holes

The Milky Way has a missing pulsar problem in its core. Astronomers have tried to explain this for years. One of the more interesting ideas comes from a team of astronomers in Europe and invokes dark matter, neutron stars, and primordial black holes (PBHs).

More…

Possible?

> We do not observe pulsars of any kind in this inner region, except for the magnetar PSR J1745-2900.

This distribution of pulsars in the Milky Way is now well known … unless … the Fermi space telescope picked up a whole heap of (576) unidentified objects in the year 2012 (or earlier). A few of these have already been identified as neutron stars. The distribution of the unknown Fermi objects tells us unequivocably that most if not all of these objects are within the Milky Way, which makes them neutron stars.

Back in 2012, the origin of 31% of the Fermi-detected γ-ray sources remained unknown.

Could it be that these “missing” neutron stars are just some of Fermi’s discoveries that haven’t yet been assigned?

Have they checked for this?