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Grams?[edit]

This article measures mass in both g and kg. We should pick one unit and adjust the others to match. I suggest kg, since I've never seen grams used to measure a mass greater than a few kg. (Similar to how the distance from New York to Chicago is measured in kilometers or miles, never meters or yards.) Piojo (talk) 01:50, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Astroparticle Physics[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2023 and 30 April 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jvega1314 (article contribs).

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in fiction[edit]

In case there's ever an "in fiction" section, I'll mention two stories by Larry Niven: "The Borderland of Sol" (1976) and "The Hole Man" (1975). —Tamfang (talk) 05:09, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In "Borderland", iirc, someone guessed that the Tunguska event was the passage of a black hole, traced its likely trajectory, found it and made use of it. —Tamfang (talk) 05:06, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And a short novel by Greg Egan, Perihelion Summer (2019?). —Tamfang (talk) 00:04, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Planet 9[edit]

I'm on the fence as to whether including this would be WP:UNDUE weight: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-planet-primordial-black-hole.html I'll leave it here for a while asking for guidance. Sandizer (talk) 00:11, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Preprints to add after peer review[edit]

What it says on the tin; just putting these here to remember to check in on later:

Oncins (2022) "Constraints on PBH as dark matter from observations: a review", comes with a video
Bernard Carr et al. (2023) "Observational Evidence for Primordial Black Holes: A Positivist Perspective"
Su, Li, and Feng (2023) "An inflation model for massive primordial black holes to interpret the JWST observations"
Depta et al. (2023) "Do pulsar timing arrays observe merging primordial black holes?"

All four are pretty juicy, which is why I'm a bit reluctant to add until they pass review. Sandizer (talk) 02:21, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Carr et al. (2024) made it into Physics Reports: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157323003976 -- very ambitious with 68 pages and 451 references! It sort of calls itself a review in the first sentence of the Abstract, and I don't see how anyone could argue. Sandizer (talk) 10:36, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]