Black holes and dark matter

by Prof. Alexander Kusenko (UCLA / Kavli IPMU)

Wednesday 23 Dec 2026, 14:00 → 15:00 Asia/Shanghai

Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/N6F-N600 - Lecture Room (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)

Abstract:

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could form in the early universe before stars and galaxies were born. PBHs with masses 10^17 – 10^23 g can account for all dark matter. I will discuss various scenarios for PBH formation in the early universe, as well as methods for detecting dark matter in the form of PBHs.

Speaker Bio:

Alexander Kusenko is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA and a Senior Fellow at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) at the University of Tokyo. He is an Associate Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (elected in 2008 for original and seminal contributions to particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology). In 2021, he was named a Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics. He has served as a general member of the board of the Aspen Center for Physics for three five-year terms (2004–2019).

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