Stephen Hawking and Bernard Carr proposed in the 1970s that black holes formed in the early universe's density fluctuations could constitute dark matter. LIGO's detection of unexpectedly massive black hole mergers revived interest, though microlensing surveys by Japan's Subaru telescope have placed tight constraints on their abundance.

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