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  <title>Space.com: Could our universe exist because black holes ate up all the antimatter?</title>
  <pubDate>March 25, 2026</pubDate>
  <description>Nikodem Poplawski, professor of practice of physics, shares his theory that the reason matter and antimatter asymmetry exists is that tiny primordial black holes created during the Big Bang gobbled up vast amounts of antimatter.</description>
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  <author>nikodem-poplawski</author>
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