[Interview] Deep Dive Intro Primordial Black Holes

What are primordial black holes and how are they different from all the other kinds of black holes out there? How could we possibly detect them and what would it mean for Cosmology? Can primordial black holes be a solution for dark matter? Finding out the answers in this interview. 🟣 Guest: Jason Kristiano https://jkristiano.github.io/ 📜 Generating large primordial fluctuations in single-field inflation for PBH formation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12149 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:27 Formation of primordial black holes 11:25 The impact on the Universe 15:45 How can we observe black holes 20:30 Constraints on dark matter solution 22:56 Research 35:11 Further observations 44:18 Current obsessions 51:49 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/8UVsNMS3Pzs 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)