Gravitational waves hint at primordial black holes from the Big Bang

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Gravitational waves may have detected primordial black holes formed during the Big Bang. The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration observed a black hole merger with an unusually low-mass object, potentially indicating a primordial black hole, not a stellar remnant. Primordial black holes are theorized to have formed from dense pockets of matter shortly after the Big Bang and could be candidates for dark matter.


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