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Primordial black holes may have been produced in the early stages of the thermal history of the Universe after cosmic inflation. If so, dark matter in the form of elementary particles can be subsequently accreted around these objects, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-03 Mathieu Boudaud , Thomas Lacroix , Martin Stref , Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati

Following on after two previous papers discussing the formation of primordial black holes in the early universe, we present here results from an in-depth investigation of the extent to which primordial black hole formation in the radiative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilia Musco , John C. Miller , Alexander G. Polnarev

Additional elementary species and primordial black holes are common candidates for dark matter. Their co-existence in the early Universe leads to accretion if particles are heavy. We solve equation of motion affected by expansion which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 N. A. Pozdnyakov

We propose a scenario in which a strong Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry breaking in the early universe results in large inhomogeneities of the initial QCD axion field value, leading to the formation of very dense axion bubbles. Some of the axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 Naoya Kitajima , Fuminobu Takahashi

In response to a recent criticism, appeared in arXiv:2303.00341, we argue that the standard scenario to form primordial black holes in the early universe based on a phase of ultra-slow-roll in single-field inflation is not ruled out.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-06 A. Riotto

We study a scenario in which the baryon asymmetry is created through Hawking radiation from primordial black holes via a dynamically-generated chemical potential. This mechanism can also be used to generate the observed dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-14 Nolan Smyth , Lillian Santos-Olmsted , Stefano Profumo

Aspects of primordial black holes, i.e. black holes formed in the early Universe, are reviewed. Special emphasis is put on their formation, their role as dark matter candidates and their manifold signatures, particularly through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Albert Escrivà , Florian Kuhnel , Yuichiro Tada

We study how the evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) can affect the production of dark matter (DM) particles through thermal processes. We consider fermionic DM interacting with Standard Model particles via a spin-1 mediator in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 Andrew Cheek , Lucien Heurtier , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Jessica Turner

A new mechanism of black hole formation in a first order phase transition is proposed. In vacuum bubble collisions the interaction of bubble walls leads to the formation of nontrivial vacuum configuration. The consequent collapse of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Yu. Khlopov , R. V. Konoplich , S. G. Rubin , A. S. Sakharov

We show that primordial (nearly) extremal black holes with a wide range of masses from the Planck scale to around $10^9$ g could be cosmologically stable and explain dark matter, given a dark electromagnetism and a heavy dark electron. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Yang Bai , Nicholas Orlofsky

Understanding the formation of earliest supermassive black holes is a question of prime astrophysical interest. In this chapter, we focus on the formation of massive black holes via gas dynamical processes. The necessary requirement for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-22 Muhammad A. Latif

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

We investigate a cogenesis scenario for composite asymmetric dark matter framework: a dark sector has a similar strong dynamics to quantum chromodynamics in the standard model, and the dark-sector counterpart of baryons is the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Takumi Kuwahara , Yoshiki Uchida

Recent observations of two nearby black hole low-mass X-ray binaries have suggested possible indication of dark matter density spikes. While the evidence is compelling, one issue with this interpretation is that light black holes formed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Aurora Ireland

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

We investigate the effects of accretion of phantom energy onto primordial black holes. Since Hawking radiation and phantom energy accretion contribute to a {\it decrease} of the mass of the black hole, the primordial black hole that would…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Mubasher Jamil , Asghar Qadir

If there is a population of black holes distributed randomly in space, light rays passing in their vicinity will acquire random phases. In the "two-slit" model of an interferometer this can, for a high density of \bhsn, lead to a diffusion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 L. Stodolsky

The parameters of the original log-normal mass spectrum of primordial black holes (PBH) are approximately adjusted on the basis of existing observational data on supermassive black holes in the galactic centers and the mass distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 A. D. Dolgov , S. Porey

Evidences for the primordial black holes (PBH) presence in the early Universe renew permanently. New limits on their mass spectrum challenge existing models of PBH formation. One of the known model is based on the closed walls collapse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Alexander A. Kirillov , Sergey G. Rubin

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $10^{17} - 10^{23}~{\rm gm}$ are considered as possible dark matter candidates as they are not subject to big-bang nucleosynthesis constraints and behave like cold dark matter. If PBHs are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Semin Xavier , Alan Sunny , S. Shankaranarayanan