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Entropy of the Universe and Hierarchical Dark Matter
We discuss the relationship between dark matter and the entropy of the universe, with the premise that dark matter exists in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) in a hierarchy of mass tiers. The lightest tier includes all PBHs with masses below one hundred solar masses. The second-lightest tie...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9407584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36010835 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24081171 |
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description | We discuss the relationship between dark matter and the entropy of the universe, with the premise that dark matter exists in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) in a hierarchy of mass tiers. The lightest tier includes all PBHs with masses below one hundred solar masses. The second-lightest tier comprises intermediate-mass PIMBHs within galaxies, including the Milky Way. Supermassive black holes at galactic centres are in the third tier. We are led to speculate that there exists a fourth tier of extremely massive PBHs, more massive than entire galaxies. We discuss future observations by the Rubin Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope. |
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spelling | pubmed-94075842022-08-26 Entropy of the Universe and Hierarchical Dark Matter Frampton, Paul H. Entropy (Basel) Article We discuss the relationship between dark matter and the entropy of the universe, with the premise that dark matter exists in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) in a hierarchy of mass tiers. The lightest tier includes all PBHs with masses below one hundred solar masses. The second-lightest tier comprises intermediate-mass PIMBHs within galaxies, including the Milky Way. Supermassive black holes at galactic centres are in the third tier. We are led to speculate that there exists a fourth tier of extremely massive PBHs, more massive than entire galaxies. We discuss future observations by the Rubin Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope. MDPI 2022-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9407584/ /pubmed/36010835 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24081171 Text en © 2022 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Frampton, Paul H. Entropy of the Universe and Hierarchical Dark Matter |
title | Entropy of the Universe and Hierarchical Dark Matter |
title_full | Entropy of the Universe and Hierarchical Dark Matter |
title_fullStr | Entropy of the Universe and Hierarchical Dark Matter |
title_full_unstemmed | Entropy of the Universe and Hierarchical Dark Matter |
title_short | Entropy of the Universe and Hierarchical Dark Matter |
title_sort | entropy of the universe and hierarchical dark matter |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9407584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36010835 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24081171 |
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