Stephen Hawking
Famous astrophysicist suggested that the explosion that gave rise to the universe flooded it with small black holes. Did we see one of them “explode”?
In the 1970s, the famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking proposed that Big Bang, the explosion that gave rise to the universe, flooded the latter of small black holes, and said they are not totally black: they can emit radiation, a radiation that would be known as Hawking radiation.
Hawking suggested that this radiation causes, over time, black holes lose pasta and end up evaporating, leading to an explosion of high -energy particles.
Now a particle discovered in the depths of the sea, a type of energy neutrino consistent with this process, can give it reason.
In February, European collaboration KM3NeTwhich operates submarines off the back of France, Italy and Greece, detected a highly powerful neutrino with a energy level of about 100 PeV (PETAELETRON-VOLTS, the measurement of an amount of kinetic energy). The neutrino detected by KM3NET is 25 times more energetic than the particles generated in, the most powerful destructive of atoms in the world.
But only now is a team of researchers not involved in detecting neutrino that they advanced the first theory: they suggest that neutrino may be the signature of a small black hole in evaporationa concept that could connect to the primordial black holes that are believed to have been formed during the Big Bang, according to the study at ARXIV, still reviewing by pairs.
Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes that may have emerged from the extreme conditions of the primitive universe. These black holes, potentially much smaller than the typically observed massifs, could be responsible for black matter – The invisible substance that constitutes most of the mass of the universe.
The black hole of 10 tons – The necessary weight, according to, to explain the neutrino detected – would be incredibly small and short -lived, so it may have originated in the Big Bang and survived thousands of millions of years before its eventual explosion.
Are these tiny black holes more common than thought? If primordial black holes are indeed responsible for black matter, their explosions should be detected regularly.
If another neutrino of this type is detected by KM3NET, we may be facing a fundamental discovery for understanding the primitive universe, black matter and high energy neutrinos.
