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Letter: Could it be that black holes survived a big crunch?

Published 16 October 2024

From Bryn Glover, Kirkby Malzeard, North Yorkshire, UK

5 October, p 40

In the interview with Sophie Koudmani, we read yet again of misgivings about the size of monstrous black holes in our early universe, and concern at the lack of time to reach such proportions. Would it be a silly or outrageous idea that such black holes may have existed before the big bang (perhaps as remnants of previous universes that “big-crunched”), around which our own universe simply expanded and adopted?

Issue no. 3513 published 19 October 2024

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