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A large primordial density perturbation of the Hubble scale will gravitationally collapse, generating an outgoing sound shell, whether or not a primordial black hole (PBH) is formed. In this Letter, we report a hybrid numerical analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Xiang-Xi Zeng , Zhuan Ning , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Shao-Jiang Wang , Heling Deng , Rong-Gen Cai

The LIGO/Virgo collaboration has by now observed or constrained the gravitational merger rates of different classes of compact objects. We consider the possibility that the bulk of these mergers are primordial black hole (PBH) mergers of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Karsten Jedamzik

Recent observational constraints indicate that primordial black holes (PBHs) with the mass scale $\sim 10^{-12}M_{\odot}$ can explain most of dark matter in the Universe. To produce this kind of PBHs, we need an enhance in the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

We study possibilities to explain the whole dark matter abundance by primordial black holes (PBHs) or to explain the merger rate of binary black holes estimated from the gravitational wave detections by LIGO/Virgo. We assume that the PBHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

Adopting a binned method, we model-independently reconstruct the mass function of primordial black holes (PBHs) from GWTC-3 and find that such a PBH mass function can be explained by a broad red-tilted power spectrum of curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

The discovery of the gravitational-wave source GW150914 with the Advanced LIGO detectors provides the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black-hole systems that inspiral and merge within the age of the Universe. Such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration

Primordial black hole (PBH) binaries forming in the early Universe may contribute to the merger events observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaborations. Moreover, the inferred merger rate constraints the fraction of PBH with masses $m \sim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-19 Viktor Stasenko , Konstantin Belotsky

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background produced by primordial black hole binaries during their early inspiral stage while accreting high-density radiation surrounding them in the early universe. We first show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Arnab Sarkar , K. Rajesh Nayak , A. S. Majumdar

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 subsolar mass primordial black hole (PBH) attracts attention as robust evidence of its primordial origin against the astrophysical black hole. Not only with themselves, PBHs can also form binaries with ordinary astrophysical objects,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-03 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Ryoto Inui , Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

In order to investigate the formation rate of binary black holes (BBHs) in stellar clusters with a mass comparable to open clusters, we performed a series of direct $N$-body simulations of open clusters with a mass of $2.5\times10^3$ (Model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Jun Kumamoto , Michiko S. Fujii , Ataru Tanikawa

One of the seemingly strongest constraints on the fraction of dark matter in the form of primordial black holes (PBH) of ${\cal O}$(10)$\,M_\odot$ relies on the merger rate inferred from the binary BH merger events detected by LIGO/Virgo.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Guillermo Ballesteros , Pasquale D. Serpico , Marco Taoso

If primordial black holes (PBHs) contribute more than 10 percent of the dark matter (DM) density, their energy density today is of the same order as that of the baryons. Such a cosmic coincidence might hint at a mutual origin for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Yi-Peng Wu , Elena Pinetti , Joseph Silk

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) generated by primordial black holes (PBHs) in the dense cores of dwarf galaxies (DGs), considering both hierarchical binary black hole (BBH) mergers and close hyperbolic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Tadeo D. Gòmez-Aguilar , Encieh Erfani , N. M. Jimènez Cruz

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 (PBHs) with a wide mass distribution imprinted by the thermal history of the Universe, which naturally produces a high peak at the solar mass scale, could explain the gravitational-wave events seen by LIGO/Virgo and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Eleni Bagui , Sebastien Clesse

Ultracompact primordial black hole binaries with masses > 10^{16} g are considered. If PBHB's contribute significant part of the dark matter of the Galaxy one can expect an existence of high-frequent non-thermal diffuse gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 J. N. Abdurashitov , V. E. Yants , C. V. Parfenov

The coalescence of stellar-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) might explain some of the gravitation waves (GWs) events detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. On the other hand, observational hints for supermassive PBHs (SMPBHs) have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-21 Hai-Long Huang , Tian-Yi Song , Yun-Song Piao

We calculate the gravitational waves (GWs) induced by the density fluctuations due to inhomogeneous distribution of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the case where PBHs eventually dominate and reheat the universe by Hawking evaporation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-06 Guillem Domènech , Chunshan Lin , Misao Sasaki

We study the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition due to the effects of one-loop radiative corrections of Yukawa couplings between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Adeela Afzal , Anish Ghoshal