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What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?
Season 7
Episode 14
It may be that for every star in the universe there are billions of microscopic black holes streaming through the solar system, the planet, even our bodies every second. Sounds horrible - but hey, at least we’d have explained dark matter.
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