Searching for Exploding black holes

The observation of the final stages of the evaporation of a light black hole, whichHawking referred to as “black hole explosion”, would offer critical insights on quantum gravityand high-energy physics phenomena. Here, we explore, review, and revisit the observationalfeatures and rates expected for nearby, light, evaporating black holes, and we assess and comparethe expected sensitivity of a broad range of observatories. We then focus on the search forcandidate black hole explosions in archival data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope and Gamma-rayBurst Monitor, and outline possible future observational campaigns.

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28 pages, 13 figures; v2: accepted for publication in JCAP

primordial black holes
gamma ray detectors
dark matter theory
gamma ray theory
gamma ray: burst
black hole
evaporation
quantum gravity
GLAST
observatory

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