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We investigate the impact of massive primordial black holes (PBHs; $m_{\rm BH}\sim 10^6~M_{\odot}$) on the star formation and first galaxy assembly process using high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations from $z = 1100$ to $z \sim 9$. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-27 Saiyang Zhang , Boyuan Liu , Volker Bromm , Junehyoung Jeon , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Florian Kuhnel

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are an important tool in cosmology to probe the primordial spectrum of small-scale curvature perturbations that reenter the cosmological horizon during radiation domination epoch. We numerically solve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-31 Tomohiro Nakama , Tomohiro Harada , A. G. Polnarev , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $10^{17} - 10^{23}~{\rm gm}$ are considered as possible dark matter candidates as they are not subject to big-bang nucleosynthesis constraints and behave like cold dark matter. If PBHs are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Semin Xavier , Alan Sunny , S. Shankaranarayanan

This thesis by publication is devoted to the study of aspects of the early universe in the context of primordial black hole (PBH) physics. Firstly, we review the fundamentals of the early universe cosmology and we recap the basics of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-04 Theodoros Papanikolaou

We propose a new mechanism of primordial black hole formation via an interrupted phase transition during the early matter-dominated stage of reheating after inflation. In reheating, induced by the decay of a pressureless fluid dominating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Wen-Yuan Ai , Lucien Heurtier , Tae Hyun Jung

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe constitute an attractive candidate for dark matter. Within the gaseous environment of the interstellar medium, PBHs with accretion disks naturally launch outflows such as winds and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Volodymyr Takhistov , Philip Lu , Kohta Murase , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Graciela B. Gelmini

We propose the model of first quasars formation around the cluster of rimordial black holes (PBHs). It is supposed, that mass fraction of the universe ~10^-3 is composed of the compact clusters of PBHs, produced during the phase transitions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vyacheslav Dokuchaev , Yury Eroshenko , Sergei Rubin

We present a novel mechanism for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs). The mechanism is based on a period of thermal inflation followed by fast-roll inflation due to tachyonic mass of order the Hubble scale. Large perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-02 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Tommi Markkanen , Antonio Racioppi , Ville Vaskonen

We show that the merger of oscillons results in a broad spectrum of the oscillon mass. A huge number of oscillon samples obtained from numerical lattice simulations reveal that the oscillon mass distribution has an exponential tail in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Kentaro Kasai , Naoya Kitajima

Formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) on astrophysical mass scales is a natural consequence of inflationary cosmology if the primordial perturbation spectrum has a large and negative running of the spectral index as observationally…

Primordial black holes (PBHs) constitute a compelling dark matter candidate whose gravitational effects could significantly influence early cosmic structure formation. We investigate the impact of PBHs on Population III star formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Julia Monika Koulen , Stefano Profumo , Nolan Smyth

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are known as one of the potential candidates for dark matter. They are expected to have formed due to the direct gravitational collapse of density fluctuations in the early Universe. Therefore, the study of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-11 Saeed Fakhry

Primordial black holes in the mass range of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors can comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. Mass and spin measurements from coalescences can be used to distinguish between an astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , P. Pani , A. Riotto

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a useful tool in cosmology to probe primordial inhomogeneities on small scales that reenter the Hubble radius during the radiation dominated epoch. In this paper, a phenomenon we call the double formation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-20 Tomohiro Nakama

Hawking evaporation of black holes in the early Universe is expected to copiously produce all kinds of particles, regardless of their charges under the Standard Model gauge group. For this reason, any fundamental particle, known or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 Andrew Cheek , Lucien Heurtier , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Jessica Turner

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are predicted in many models via different formation mechanisms. Identifying the origin of PBHs is of the same importance as probing their existence. We propose to probe the asteroid-mass PBHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ke-Pan Xie

The mass distribution of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) is affected by drops in the pressure of the early Universe plasma. For example, events in the standard model of particle physics, such as the $W^\pm/Z^0$ decoupling, the quark-hadron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Matteo Braglia , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

Primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter (DM) nonlinear small-scale structure formation begins before the epoch of recombination due to large Poisson density fluctuations. Those small-scale effects still survive today, distinguishing physics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-25 Gert Hütsi , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

In this article we consider the formation and evolution of black holes, especially those in binary stars where radiation from the matter falling on them can be seen. We consider a number of effects introduced by some of us, which are not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. E. Brown , C. -H. Lee , R. A. M. J. Wijers , H. A. Bethe

We present a scenario in which primordial black holes (PBHs) form in a post-inflationary radiation-dominated (RD) phase and then experience significant accretion during a phase of early matter dominated (EMD). We show that PBH masses could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-29 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , James B. Dent , Ngo Phuc Duc Loc , Tao Xu