Tau.Neutrino said:
Physicists propose new theories of black holes from the very early universe
UCLA physicists have proposed new theories for how the universe’s first black holes might have formed and the role they might play in the production of heavy elements such as gold, platinum and uranium.
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https://phys.org/news/2017-09-physicists-theories-black-holes-early.html
> The new theory proposes that primordial black holes might help create many of the heavier elements found in nature.
Um, what!
> it’s possible to search for these primordial black holes using astronomical observations.
Have already been searched for many times – not found.
> Earlier this year, U.S. and Japanese astronomers published a paper on their discovery of one star in a nearby galaxy that brightened and dimmed precisely as if a primordial black hole was passing in front of it.
A comet is far more likely.
> a primordial black hole occasionally collides with a neutron star—the city-sized, spinning remnant of a star that remains after some supernova explosions—and sinks into its depths. When that happens, the primordial black hole consumes the neutron star from the inside, a process that takes about 10,000 years. As the neutron star shrinks, it spins even faster, eventually causing small fragments to detach and fly off. Those fragments of neutron-rich material may be the sites in which neutrons fuse into heavier and heavier elements.
Yeah. No.