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Where are all the medium-sized black holes?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There Evidence for Primar Black Hole Formation?

There's some skepticism about whether primordial black holes are a thing. Even if you had started with tiny black holes from the big bang, there's no way they could have grown that big what we see to day. We should see those evaporating all over the galaxy, like they should last, you know, a few billion years and they should be evaporating in these bright flashes of light as they disappear. But we don't see that. So that means that there aren't little primordial black hole. It doesn't mean there weren't really big primordial black holes, but it means there weren't really little primordial black holes. And that means t, t, it's

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