
Nevertheless, a number of processes in the early Universe could have created the right conditions for the black holes to form.” “However, cosmological perturbations that seeded galaxies are known to be much smaller. “The early Universe was so dense that any positive density fluctuation of more than 50% would create a black hole,” they explained. Alexander Kusenko from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the University of California, Los Angeles and his colleagues from Japan, the United States and Taiwan described a ‘multiverse’ scenario of primordial black hole formation. They could also play a role in the synthesis of heavy elements when they collide with neutron stars and destroy them, releasing neutron-rich material. They are a viable candidate for dark matter, the missing matter that astrophysicists think makes up 85% of the Universe.įirst proposed several decades ago, these compact objects could play a central role in a variety of astrophysical phenomena, such as progenitors for gravitational waves and seeds for formation of supermassive black holes. Primordial black holes are hypothetical compact objects that formed in the early Universe prior to any galaxies and stars. Image credit: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe. presidential election came to light, and well ahead of President Trump’s admiration for the Russian leader were regularly being voiced.‘Baby universes’ branching off of our Universe shortly after the Big Bang appear to us as black holes. The song was written long before reports of Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. In the case of “Putin,” Newman proved to be a little prescient. Newman is clearly thinking big once again on “Dark Matter.” The opening track, “The Great Debate,” is an 8½ minute suite, a faceoff between science and religious faith that plays out cinematically, with a narrator interacting with several distinct other points of view expressed by varied characters who are fleshed out by a shifting musical mise-en-scene.

He mines so many rich veins of American musical culture and synthesizes them in a way that nobody else has done.” “I said when I inducted Randy into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, that what you hear in his music is America, in all its shame and all its glory…. “The combination of his lyrical genius and his deep ability as an orchestrator and composer is powerful stuff. Sometimes, he works in the realm of irony other times, he’s a heart-on-his-sleeve romantic,” he said.

“He’s one of the only living songwriters who can get ridicule and empathy into the same song.
