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Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed during first-order phase transitions provide a powerful link between the early-universe microphysics and observable signatures today, including dark matter and gravitational waves. In this work we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Mudit Rai

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) serve as a unique probe to the physics of the early Universe, particularly inflation. In light of this, we study the formation of PBHs by the collapse of overdense perturbations generated during a model of warm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Richa Arya

In this paper, we investigate the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) during the radiation-dominated era. The collapse of significant density perturbations originating from large primordial scalar fluctuations generated during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Brahim Asfour , Farida Bargach , Yahya Ladghami , Ahmed Errahmani , Taoufik Ouali

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe have been connected with the nature of dark matter and can significantly affect cosmological history. We show that coincidence dark radiation and density fluctuation gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Guillem Domènech , Volodymyr Takhistov , Misao Sasaki

Primordial black holes are produced in a minimal UV extension to the Higgs inflation with an included $R^2$ term. We show that for parameters consistent with Standard Model measurements and Planck observation results lead to $M_{\rm PBH}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Dhong Yeon Cheong , Sung Mook Lee , Seong Chan Park

Recent developments in the study of primordial black holes (PBHs) will be reviewed, with particular emphasis on their formation and evaporation. PBHs could provide a unique probe of the early Universe, gravitational collapse, high energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. J. Carr

Recent astronomical data on Black hole observations are reviewed. The arguments in favor that the observed black holes are predominantly primordial (PBH) are presented. The mass spectrum of PBH is best fit to the log-normal one. A model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 A. D. Dolgov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can generically form in inflationary setups through the collapse of enhanced cosmological perturbations, providing us access to the early Universe through their associated observational signatures. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Andreas Lymperis , Smaragda Lola , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We review the formation and evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) and their possible contribution to dark matter. Various constraints suggest they could only provide most of it in the mass windows $10^{17}$ - $10^{23}\,$g or $10$ -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel

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 (PBHs) are not as exotic as once thought and constitute a compelling non-particle dark matter (DM) candidate. We present a novel general PBH formation mechanism from scalar field fragmentation, which does not suffer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-06 Volodymyr Takhistov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe via the collapse of large density perturbations. There are tight constraints on the abundance of PBHs formed due to their gravitational effects and the consequences of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Amandeep S. Josan , Anne M. Green , Karim A. Malik

In the model where Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) form from large primordial curvature (C) perturbations, i.e., CPBHs, constraints on PBH abundance provide in principle constraints on the primordial curvature power spectrum. This connection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-15 Alba Kalaja , Nicola Bellomo , Nicola Bartolo , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese , Ilia Musco , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde

Observations by the MACHO collaboration indicate that a significant fraction of the galactic halo dark matter may be in form of compact objects with masses $M\sim 0.5M_{\odot}$. Identification of these objects as red or white dwarfs is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Karsten Jedamzik

Various mechanisms have been suggested for the formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), and this thesis focuses on the standard mechanism based on the critical collapse of cosmological fluctuations. The underlying idea is that during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Antonio Junior Iovino

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are hypothetical objects that could have originated from density fluctuations in a very early phase of our Universe. Recent observations restrict the masses that such PBHs could have, if they are to constitute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Vitorio A. De Lorenci , David I. Kaiser , Patrick Peter

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

Formation of significant number of primordial black holes (PBHs) is realized if and only if primordial density fluctuations have a large amplitude, which means that tensor perturbations generated from these scalar perturbations as a second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-06 Ryo Saito , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are of interest in many cosmological contexts. PBHs lighter than about 1012 kg are predicted to be directly detectable by their Hawking radiation. This radiation should produce both a diffuse extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-05 Jane H MacGibbon , Tilan N. Ukwatta , J. T. Linnemann , S. S. Marinelli , D. Stump , K. Tollefson

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could provide the dark matter in various mass windows below $10^2 M_{\odot}$ and those of $30 M_{\odot}$ might explain the LIGO events. PBHs much larger than this might have important consequences even if they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 Bernard Carr , Joseph Silk