Science · 22 August 2026

Mysterious space object Phoebe might be a tiny black hole from Big Bang

Astronomers believe a mysterious object named Phoebe, detected in 2019, could be a primordial black hole, formed when the universe first began. Phoebe caused the light from a distant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, our satellite galaxy, to appear brighter for a short time, in an event called gravitational microlensing.

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