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The possible existence of primordial black holes in the stellar mass window has received considerable attention because their mergers may contribute to current and future gravitational-wave detections. Primordial black hole mergers,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Ken K. Y. Ng , Gabriele Franciolini , Emanuele Berti , Paolo Pani , Antonio Riotto , Salvatore Vitale

The recent detection of the binary black hole merger GW150914 demonstrates the existence of black holes more massive than previously observed in X-ray binaries in our Galaxy. This article explores different scenarios of black hole formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Irina Dvorkin , Elisabeth Vangioni , Joseph Silk , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Keith A. Olive

We conduct a thorough Bayesian analysis of the possibility that the black hole merger events seen in gravitational waves are primordial black hole (PBH) mergers. Using the latest merger rate models for PBH binaries drawn from a lognormal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Alex Hall , Andrew D. Gow , Christian T. Byrnes

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are theoretical black holes which may be formed during the radiation dominant era and, basically, caused by the gravitational collapse of radiational overdensities. It has been well known that in the context of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

It has been suggested that primordial black holes (PBHs) of roughly 30 solar masses could make up the dark matter and if so, might account for the recent detections by LIGO involving binary black holes in this mass range. It has also been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Hiroya Nishikawa , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski , Joseph Silk

Black hole relics are of significant interest in cosmology and theoretical physics. In this work, we consider tiny primordial black holes (PBHs) ( $M_{\text {PBH }} \lesssim 10^7 \mathrm{~g}$ ) which are generated soon after the end of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Misao Sasaki , Jianing Wang

The detection of a subsolar object in a compact binary merger is regarded as one of the smoking gun signatures of a population of primordial black holes~(PBHs). We critically assess whether these systems could be distinguished from stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-09 F. Crescimbeni , G. Franciolini , P. Pani , A. Riotto

It is well known that a primordial black hole (PBH) can be generated in the inflation process of the early universe, especially when the inflation field has a number of non-trivial features that could break the slow-roll condition. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-04 Ruifeng Zheng , Jiaming Shi , Taotao Qiu

Recent observations of massive galaxies indicate that they double in mass and quintuple in size between redshift z = 1 and the present, despite undergoing very little star formation, suggesting that galaxy mergers drive the evolution. Since…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Sean T. McWilliams , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Frans Pretorius

The frequent detection of binary mergers of $\sim 30 M_{\odot}$ black holes (BHs) by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) rekindled researchers' interest in primordial BHs (PBHs) being dark matter (DM). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Yuan Gao , Xiaojia Zhang , Meng Su

Mergers of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may contribute to the gravitational wave mergers detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration. We study the dynamics of PBH binaries dressed with dark matter (DM) spikes, for PBHs with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Pratibha Jangra , Bradley J. Kavanagh , J. M. Diego

Primordial black holes (PBHs), as a potential macroscopic candidate for dark matter, can encounter other compact objects in dark matter halos because of their random distribution. Besides, the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) related…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Saeed Fakhry , Zahra Salehnia , Azin Shirmohammadi , Javad T. Firouzjaee

Black hole binaries formed dynamically in globular clusters are believed to be one of the main sources of gravitational waves in the Universe. Here, we use our new population synthesis code, cBHBd, to determine the redshift evolution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 Fabio Antonini , Mark Gieles

We compute the expected gravitational wave signal from coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries at the center of galaxies in a hierarchical structure formation scenario in which seed holes of intermediate mass form far up in the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Sesana , Francesco Haardt , Piero Madau , Marta Volonteri

Possible formation mechanisms of massive close binary black holes that can merge in the Hubble time to produce powerful gravitational wave bursts detected during advanced LIGO O1 science run are briefly discussed. The pathways include the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Konstantin Postnov , Alexandre Kuranov

Recent population studies have searched for a subpopulation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the gravitational-wave (GW) events so far detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK), in most cases adopting a phenomenological PBH mass distribution.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-23 G. Franciolini , I. Musco , P. Pani , A. Urbano

In this work, we explore primordial black holes (PBH) formation scenario during the post-inflationary preheating stage dominated by the inflaton field. We consider, in particular, a model-independent parametrization of the Gaussian peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Daniel del-Corral , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

We calculate the gravitational waves (GWs) produced by primordial black holes (PBHs) in the presence of the inflaton condensate in the early Universe. Combining the GW production from the evaporation process, the gravitational scattering of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Mathieu Gross , Essodjolo Kpatcha , Yann Mambrini , Maria Olalla Olea-Romacho , Rishav Roshan

The gravitational waves measured at LIGO are presumed here to come from merging primordial black holes. We ask how these primordial black holes could arise through inflationary models while not conflicting with current experiments. Among…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-11 Nicholas Orlofsky , Aaron Pierce , James D. Wells

The merger of a super-massive binary black hole (SBBH) is one of the most extreme events in the universe with a huge amount of energy released by gravitational radiation. Although the characteristic gravitational wave (GW) frequency around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Naoki Seto