Did We Just See a Primordial Black Hole Collide?
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one might think that dark matter being primordial black holes, and considering the percentage of dark matter vs matter that we would have a near rain of LIGO detections. in particular of one is not a physicist or an astrophysicist
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Have there been any previous solar mass chirp signals that were subsequently dismissed as noise? The paper estimates that rate at about one in four years but LKV has been operating longer than that.
To date, no confident sub-solar mass (SSM) compact binary merger has been officially announced by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration. searches have identified several candidates from LIGO's O1, O2, O3, and O4a observing runs, which are either below the accepted minimum mass of a neutron star or represent the "low-significance" edge of the search data. Here's most recent candidate paper https://arxiv.org/html/2602.12115v2