Why Primordial Black Holes Defy Everything We Know About the Big Bang

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Why Primordial Black Holes Defy Everything We Know About the Big Bang In the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was a roiling inferno of energy and matter crushed into a space smaller than an atom. Temperatures soared beyond anything we can replicate in laboratories, and the laws of physics operated at their most extreme limits. In that unimaginable chaos, something impossible might have happened. Tiny pockets of space, denser than anything that would exist for billions of years to come, could have collapsed in on themselves, forming black holes no bigger than atoms but containing the mass of mountains. These objects, if they exist, are called primordial black holes, and they weren't born from dying stars like the black holes we know today. They were born from the violence of creation itself.