NASA satellite could reveal if primordial black holes are dark matter
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- The primary objective of NASAs Kepler satellite, which was launched in March 2009 to orbit the Sun, is to search for Earth-like planets in a portion of the Milky Way galaxy. But now a team of physicists has proposed that Kepler could have a second appealing purpose: to either detect or rule out primordial black holes (PBHs) of a certain mass range as the primary constituent of dark matter.