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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a profound signature of primordial cosmological structures and provide a theoretical tool to study nontrivial physics of the early Universe. The mechanisms of PBH formation are discussed and observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Yu. Khlopov

We investigate a possibility of primordial black hole (PBH) formation with a hierarchical mass spectrum in multiple phases of inflation. As an example, we find that one can simultaneously realize a mass spectrum which has recently attracted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are compelling candidates for explaining the present-day relic abundance of cold dark matter (CDM), yet their formation typically requires finely tuned early-universe dynamics. In this work, we propose a novel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Subhasis Maiti , Debaprasad Maity

We show that resonant processes during multi-field inflation can generate a large curvature perturbation on small scales. This perturbation naturally leads to the formation of primordial black holes that may constitute dark matter, as well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Yuma S. Furuta , Mindaugas Karčiauskas , Kazunori Kohri , Alejandro Sáez

We construct an analytically solvable simplified model that captures the essential features for primordial black hole (PBH) production in most models of single-field inflation. The construction makes use of the Wands duality between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Alexandros Karam , Niko Koivunen , Eemeli Tomberg , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

The production of Primordial Black Holes (PBH) from inflationary perturbations provides a physical process where the effective classicality of the fluctuations does not hold for certain scales. For adiabatic perturbations produced during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Polarski

We show that an ultralight primordial black hole (PBH) dominated phase makes blue-tilted inflationary gravitational waves (BGW) compatible with the recent detection of an nHz stochastic GW background by pulsar-timing arrays (PTAs), for high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Satyabrata Datta

Black hole formation in the framework of hybrid inflation is considered. It is shown that this model of inflation provides conditions for multiple black hole production.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Rubin

We investigate a mechanism of primordial black hole (PBH) formation that avoids any dependence on specific inflationary features or exotic physics. In this scenario, the required large curvature fluctuations leading to PBH formation are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ioanna Stamou , Sebastien Clesse

We investigate the two-stage inflation regime in the theory of hybrid cosmological $\alpha$-attractors. The spectrum of inflationary perturbations is compatible with the latest Planck/BICEP/Keck results, thanks to the attractor properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-11 Matteo Braglia , Andrei Linde , Renata Kallosh , Fabio Finelli

We investigate the formation of primordial black hole (PBH) based on numerical relativity simulations and peak theory as well as the corresponding scalar induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals in the presence of \emph{logarithmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ryoto Inui , Cristian Joana , Hayato Motohashi , Shi Pi , Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in an upward step inflationary model, where nonlinearities between curvature perturbations and field fluctuations introduce a cutoff, deviating from the Gaussian case. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 Xiaoding Wang , Xiao-Han Ma , Yi-Fu Cai

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) induced by a first-order electroweak phase transition in a realistic renormalizable framework, the complex singlet extension of the Standard Model. We perform a quantitative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Fa Peng Huang , Chikako Idegawa , Aidi Yang

The most widely studied formation mechanism of a primordial black hole is collapse of large-amplitude perturbation on small scales generated in single-field inflation. In this Letter, we calculate one-loop correction to the large-scale…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-30 Jason Kristiano , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We propose a two-field inflationary model with the induced gravity term. Using conformal transformation of the metric, we get the chiral cosmological model with two scalar fields. We demonstrate that the constructed inflationary model does…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-22 E. O. Pozdeeva , S. Yu. Vernov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a viable candidate for dark matter if the PBH masses are in the currently unconstrained "sublunar" mass range. We revisit the possibility that PBHs were produced by nucleation of false vacuum bubbles during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki , Sunao Sugiyama , Masahiro Takada , Volodymyr Takhistov , Edoardo Vitagliano

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) are hypothesised to form during inflation and have long been considered a candidate for compact dark matter. Gravitational microlensing is known as a productive method for exoplanet discovery and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Renee Key , Edward N. Taylor , Ken C. Freeman , Jeremy Mould , Abhijit Saha , Anais Möller , Timothy M. C. Abbott , Alan R. Duffy

We consider the process of primordial black hole (PBH) formation originated from primordial curvature perturbations produced during waterfall transition (with tachyonic instability), at the end of hybrid inflation. It is known that in such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-08 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai

The bubbles that nucleated during slow-roll inflation can be supercritical, i.e. their radii are larger than the Hubble horizon of de Sitter spacetime inside the bubble (an inflating baby universe inside it), and thus naturally develop to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Hai-Long Huang , Yun-Song Piao

We revisit the scenario of primordial black hole (PBH) formation from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition in hybrid inflation models. In a minimal setup considered in the literature, the mass and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Yuichiro Tada , Masaki Yamada