Primordial Black Holes

In 2017 a scientific paper about primordial black holes in which I had participated came out, so I decided to illustrate it for scicomm purposes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00947

The black hole gravitational lens effects were done with the technique I previously described here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5BxJDP

And for a full explanation of the phenomenon I recommend reading the description on the DeviantArt post: https://www.deviantart.com/darksapiens/art/Primordial-Black-Holes-662930850

The M81 galaxy Hubble image used in the background is available here: https://esahubble.org/images/heic0710a/