“Most black holes are formed when stars collapse,” Ivy said.
“But there’s a theory that some of them were created shortly
after the Big Bang. The universe was lumpy. Some of the lumps
might have been dense enough to undergo gravitational
collapse. They could form black holes that instead of
weighing what a star weighs could be a lot smaller.”
“How small?”
“I don’t think there’s a lower limit.”
Yes there is. Black holes lose mass by Hawking radiation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiationA black hole smaller than 0.8% Earth masses loses more mass than it gains from the cosmic microwave background, and will eventually evaporate.