A New Way to Detect Primordial Black Holes Through Their Hawking Radiation

This artist's concept of small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black holes would have a difficult time forming the accretion disks that make them visible here. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

Scientists propose a revolutionary new method to detect primordial black holes by hunting for their Hawking radiation. Instead of searching for faint background signals, researchers suggest using the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station to watch for distinctive spikes in positron particles as these ancient black holes pass through our solar system, emitting Hawking radiation.

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