Exploring Indirect Evidence and the 'Smoking Gun' of Cosmic Inflation

What are primordial black holes and how are they different from all the other kinds of black holes out there? How could we possibly detect them and what would it mean for Cosmology? Can primordial black holes be a solution for dark matter? Finding out the answers in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Jason Kristiano
https://jkristiano.github.io/

📜 Generating large primordial fluctuations in single-field inflation for PBH formation:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12149

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• 00:00 Intro
• 02:27 Formation of primordial black holes
• 11:25 The impact on the Universe
• 15:45 How can we observe black holes
• 20:30 Constraints on dark matter solution
• 22:56 Research
• 35:11 Further observations
• 44:18 Current obsessions
• 51:49 Final thoughts

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