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Primordial black holes (PBHs) have been explored as potential dark matter candidates, with various astrophysical observations placing upper limits on the fraction $f_\mathrm{PBH}$ of dark matter in the form of PBHs. However, a largely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Nabendu Kumar Khan , Anupam Ray , Girish Kulkarni , Basudeb Dasgupta

The ground-breaking detections of gravitational waves from black hole mergers by LIGO have rekindled interest in primordial black holes (PBHs) and the possibility of dark matter being composed of PBHs. It has been suggested that PBHs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Qirong Zhu , Eugene Vasiliev , Yuexing Li , Yipeng Jing

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be not only cold dark matter candidates but also progenitors of binary black holes observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration. The PBH mass can be shifted to the heavy distribution if multi-merger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Lang Liu , Zhi-Qiang You , You Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) have not been experimentally detected so far, but their existence would provide important insights about the early Universe and serve as one of the possible candidates of dark matter (DM). In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Pratibha Jangra , Daniele Gaggero , Bradley J. Kavanagh , J. M. Diego

A variety of processes in the very early universe can give rise to a population of primordial black holes (PBHs) with an extended mass spectrum. For certain mass spectra of this sort, it has been shown that the evaporation of these PBHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Keith R. Dienes , Lucien Heurtier , Fei Huang , Tim M. P. Tait , Brooks Thomas

As a candidate of dark matter, primordial black holes (PBHs) have attracted more and more attentions as they could be possible progenitors of the heavy binary black holes (BBHs) observed by LIGO/Virgo. Accurately estimating the merger rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 You Wu

Primordial black holes (PBHs) might be formed in the early Universe and could comprise at least a fraction of the dark matter. Using the recently released GWTC-2 dataset from the third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Kaze W. K. Wong , Gabriele Franciolini , Valerio De Luca , Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti , Paolo Pani , Antonio Riotto

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) can form in the early universe and might comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. Interestingly, they are accompanied by the generation of Gravitational Wave (GW) signals and they could contribute to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 G. Franciolini

The mass distribution of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) is affected by drops in the pressure of the early Universe plasma. For example, events in the standard model of particle physics, such as the $W^\pm/Z^0$ decoupling, the quark-hadron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Matteo Braglia , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

The possibility that the dark matter comprises primordial black holes (PBHs) is considered, with particular emphasis on the currently allowed mass windows at $10^{16}$ - $10^{17}\,$g, $10^{20}$ - $10^{24}\,$g and $1$ - $10^{3}\,M_{\odot}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-23 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel , Marit Sandstad

Seven observations point towards the existence of primordial black holes (PBH), constituting the whole or an important fraction of the dark matter in the Universe: the mass and spin of black holes detected by Advanced LIGO/VIRGO, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Sebastien Clesse , Juan García-Bellido

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a fascinating candidate for being the dark matter, albeit one which has been heavily constrained. This review presents an in depth look at those observational constraints, particularly at their nuances and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Marc Oncins

The LIGO/Virgo collaboration have by now detected the mergers of ten black hole binaries via the emission of gravitational radiation. The hypothesis that these black holes have formed during the cosmic QCD epoch and make up all of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Karsten Jedamzik

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter and may also account for a fraction of the binary black hole mergers observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. In this study, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Aritra Basak , Maxim Khlopov , Maxim Krasnov

We derive robust constraints on the initial abundance of evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs) using the reionization history of the Universe as a cosmological probe. We focus on PBHs that inject electromagnetic (EM) energy into the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Ziwen Yin , Hanyu Cheng , Luca Visinelli

The possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) form a part of dark matter has been considered over a wide mass range from the Planck mass ($10^{-5}~\rm g$) to the level of the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Huan Zhou , Yujie Lian , Zhengxiang Li , Shuo Cao , Zhiqi Huang

Primordial black holes (PBH) may constitute a considerable fraction of dark matter. In this work we use the recent observations by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaborations to set direct limits on stellar-mass range PBHs. We evaluate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Mehdi El Bouhaddouti , Muhsin Aljaf , Ilias Cholis

The recently identified \textit{memory burden} effect has the potential to significantly decelerate the evaporation of black holes. Specifically, when approximately half of a black hole's initial mass has been radiated away, the evaporation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Xiu-hui Tan , Yu-feng Zhou

We review numerous arguments for primordial black holes (PBHs) based on observational evidence from a variety of lensing, dynamical, accretion and gravitational-wave effects. This represents a shift from the usual emphasis on PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Bernard Carr , Sebastien Clesse , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Michael Hawkins , Florian Kuhnel

Cosmic voids are known as underdense substructures of the cosmic web that cover a large volume of the Universe. It is known that cosmic voids contain a small number of dark matter halos, so the existence of primordial black holes (PBHs) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Saeed Fakhry , Seyed Sajad Tabasi , Javad T. Firouzjaee