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# What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/pbs-space-time/episode/what-if-dark-matter-is-just-black-holes-xhhydd/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:12:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T13:46:15.000Z
- Description: It may be that for every star in the universe there are billions of black holes.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: PBS Space Time, Season 7, Episode 14, #ZZZ_Episode_40ebff35-cf38-4903-8b4c-c00cb9e7df74, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_ae70f836-13b6-4c9d-b61f-99f7b8bc29eb, #v1.16

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.