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Did LIGO detect dark matter? — mentioned by T-A

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:02:27 GMT

As pointed out in [1]: There is a window for PBHs to be DM if the BH mass is in the range 20M_sun <~ M <~ 100M_sun. Lower masses are excluded by microlensing surveys. Higher masses would disrupt wide binaries. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00464

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Did LIGO detect dark matter? — mentioned by T-A

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:44:44 GMT

It has been suggested: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/230715-why-gravitational-... arXiv preprints: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00464 https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.04023

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Did LIGO detect dark matter? — HN submission

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:14:38 GMT

Did LIGO detect dark matter?

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