MIT physicists propose that in the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have produced microscopic black holes with immense nuclear charge.
Priyamvada Natarajan's contributions in astronomy helped shed light into two major research interests in contemporary astrophysics - the origins of supermassive black holes, and mapping dark...
Astronomers were taken aback since it's been hiding in plain sight all this while!
The findings challenge the conventional wisdom that black holes developed after the first stars and galaxies appeared, upending assumptions about how they affect the universe.
