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Tiny Black Holes Could Have Left Tunnels Inside Earth's Rocks


The research team says it’s time to “think outside the box” since nothing else is working.

In a study published in the December issue of Physics of the Dark Universe and available online since September, the cosmologists suggest that evidence of PBHs might be present within hollow celestial bodies, as well as in objects right here on Earth. “The chances of finding these signatures are small, but searching for them would not require much resources and the potential payoff, the first evidence of a primordial black hole, would be immense,” Stojkovic explained in the statement. They posit that if a PBH shot through a body such as a planet, moon, or asteroid with a liquid core, it might get trapped inside and vacuum up its center, hollowing it out until an external impact dislodged it.

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