Revisiting primordial black hole dark matter from axion inflation

This episode explores a paper by Gabriele Franciolini, Nadir Ijaz, and Marco Peloso on how axion inflation could create primordial black holes. The study finds these black holes might account for all dark matter in an asteroidal mass range and could be detected via gravitational waves using the LISA observatory.

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