EARTH.COM - Exoplanets used to be fringe objects in astronomy. Now, they are popular subjects for testing ideas about the composition of the universe.
A new study proposes that some gas giants might steadily collect dark matter in their cores until the buildup tips into a collapse that forms a tiny black hole.
Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr, a graduate researcher at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), led the work with postdoctoral researcher Tara Fetherolf.