"If Hawking's hypothesis was right, then you'd expect to see around a thousand such flickers. They saw one."<p>How is this expectation of 1000 derived? Was it based on the mg mass, what if they were 0.1 mg black holes?
Scientists know the mysterious substance makes up the majority of all matter in the universe, vastly outnumbering normal matter like stars, planets, and people.<p>s/know/assume