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Black holes are the most compact objects in the Universe. According to general relativity, black holes have a horizon that hides a singularity where Einstein's theory breaks down. Recently, gravitational waves opened the possibility to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-01 Elisa Maggio

We calculate the gravitational wave background produced from density perturbations in an early matter domination era where primordial black holes form. The formation of black holes requires perturbations out of the linear regime. Space with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Ioannis Dalianis , Chris Kouvaris

For space-based gravitational wave (GW) detection, the main noise source for massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) is attributed to approximately $10^7$ double white dwarf binaries in the foreground. For a GW source, the amplitude of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-27 Pan Guo , Hong-Bo Jin , Cong-Feng Qiao , Yue-Liang Wu

The spectra of gravitational waves from black hole evaporation generically peak at frequencies of order the Hawking temperature, making this signal ultra-high frequency for primordial black holes evaporating in the early universe. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-26 Aurora Ireland , Stefano Profumo , Jordan Scharnhorst

Overmassive black hole galaxies (OBGs) at redshifts $z \sim$ 10, or 450 Myr after the Big Bang, are one of the most puzzling discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope to date because they formed by such early epochs and their black-hole…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-05 Muhammad A. Latif , Daniel J. Whalen , Sadegh Khochfar , Fergus Cullen

With the advent of gravitational wave astronomy, searching for gravitational wave echoes from black holes (BHs) is becoming an interesting probe of their quantum nature near their horizons. Newborn BHs may be strong emitters of echoes, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Naritaka Oshita , Daichi Tsuna , Niayesh Afshordi

Primordial black holes of planetary masses captured by compact stars are widely studied to constrain their composition fraction of dark matter. Such a capture may lead to an inspiral process and be detected through gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-10 Ze-Cheng Zou , Yong-Feng Huang

We investigate the expected gravitational wave emission from coalescing supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. We employ a semi-analytic model of galaxy and quasar formation based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Motohiro Enoki , Kaiki T. Inoue , Masahiro Nagashima , Naoshi Sugiyama

We present the first search for gravitational waves from the coalescence of stellar mass and sub-solar mass black holes with masses between $20 - 100~\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ and $0.01 - 1~\mathrm{M}_{\odot}~($10 - 10^3$~\mathrm{M}_{J})$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Alexander Harvey Nitz , Yi-Fan Wang

The recent discovery of critical phenomena arising in gravitational collapse near the threshold of black hole formation is used to estimate the initial mass function of primordial black holes (PBHs). It is argued that the universal scaling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. C. Niemeyer , K. Jedamzik

The idea that primordial black holes (PBHs) can comprise most of the dark matter of the universe has recently reacquired a lot of momentum. Observational constraints, however, rule out this possibility for most of the PBH masses, with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 N. Bartolo , V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , M. Peloso , D. Racco , A. Riotto

In this paper, we forecast the expected detection rates and redshift distributions of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves (GWs) from three different mass distributions of primordial black holes (PBHs) and two stellar formation models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Bin Liu , Zhengxiang Li , Shaoxin Zhao , Huan Zhou , He Gao

We present the first search for gravitational waves from sub-solar mass compact-binary mergers which allows for non-negligible orbital eccentricity. Sub-solar mass black holes are a signature of primordial origin black holes, which may be a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Alexander H. Nitz , Yi-Fan Wang

We study the possibility of the Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) formation with the aim of finding a considerable fraction of Dark Matter (DM), using the gravitationally enhanced friction mechanism which arises from a nonminimal derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-20 Zeinab Teimoori , Kazem Rezazadeh , Kayoomars Karami

The dynamical formation of binary black holes (BBHs) in globular clusters (GCs) may contribute significantly to the observed gravitational wave (GW) merger rate. Furthermore, LISA may detect many BBH sources from GCs at mHz frequencies,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Zeyuan Xuan , Kyle Kremer , Smadar Naoz

Gravitational waves from coalescences of neutron stars or stellar-mass black holes into intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) of $\gtrsim 100$ solar masses represent one of the exciting possible sources for advanced gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-06 Carl-Johan Haster , Zhilu Wang , Christopher P. L. Berry , Simon Stevenson , John Veitch , Ilya Mandel

We introduce a new technique to search for gravitational wave events from compact binary mergers that produce a clear signal only in a single gravitational wave detector, and marginal signals in other detectors. Such a situation can arise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Barak Zackay , Liang Dai , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Javier Roulet , Matias Zaldarriaga

In this paper we analyze in detail a rarely discussed question of gravity wave production from evaporating primordial black holes. These black holes emit gravitons which are, at classical level, registered as gravity waves. We use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-21 Ruifeng Dong , William H. Kinney , Dejan Stojkovic

We investigate the imprints of chaos in gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals configuration, where a stellar massive object, confined in a harmonic potential, orbits a supermassive Schwarzschild-like black hole embedded in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Surajit Das , Surojit Dalui , Bum-Hoon Lee , Yi-Fu Cai

With the anticipated launch of space-based gravitational wave detectors, including LISA, TaiJi, TianQin, and DECIGO, expected around 2030, the detection of gravitational waves generated by intermediate-mass black hole binaries (IMBBHs)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Mengfei Sun , Jin Li