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Petters added, "If braneworld black holes form even 1 percent of the dark matter in our part of the galaxy -- a cautious assumption -- there should be several thousand braneworld black holes in our solar system."

If this is a prediction of braneworld theory, it's hard for me to imagine it hasn't been falsified. Would we not have noticed several thousand black holes eating comets and whatnot? Are they so tiny their effects are undetectable? Shouldn't they have flashed off by now if so?

How can this be true?

80 posted on 05/25/2006 5:15:27 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)

Shouldn't post after reading just the excerpt. The full article makes clear what the size of the black holes would be. Still, it's surprising.

81 posted on 05/25/2006 5:20:22 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)