Thursday, February 5, 2026

Is There A Link Between Primordial Black Holes, Neutrinos, and Dark Matter?

A specific type of Primordial Black Hole could be behind the recent detection of an extremely energetic neutrino. These 'dark charge' PBH could heat up and suffer an evaporative explosion that emits high-energy neutrinos. Research says these types of PBH could also be dark matter. Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe capable of producing such energy—100,000 times more than the highest-energy particle ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. However, a team of physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently hypothesized that something like this could happen when a special kind of black hole, called a "quasi-extremal primordial black hole," explodes.



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