At the Dawn of Time: MIT Physicists Link Dark Matter to “Super-Charged” Microscopic Black Holes

In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, according to MIT physicists.

MIT researchers propose that primordial black holes, possibly a form of dark matter, could have been formed in the first moments after the Big Bang and carried high levels of a nuclear property known as color charge. These super-charged black holes, despite their brief existence, may have impacted the early universe’s cosmology and could explain some astronomical phenomena observed today.