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Star sign

The realization that primordial black holes produce oscillations when they pass through stars brings us one step closer to observing traces of this dark-matter candidate that formed in the early Universe.

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Figure 1: The radial velocities (Vr) induced by the passage of a 1022 g primordial black hole through a Sun-like star on a radial orbit.

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Green, A. Star sign. Nature Phys 7, 926–927 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2158

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