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We review the formation and evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) and their possible contribution to dark matter. Various constraints suggest they could only provide most of it in the mass windows $10^{17}$ - $10^{23}\,$g or $10$ -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel

In a class of single field models of inflation, the idea of Primordial Black holes(PBHs) production is studied. In this case, the dynamics on small cosmological scales differs significantly from that of the large scales probed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Jayesh C. Jain , Devanshu Sharma , Yogesh

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) arise naturally from high peaks in the curvature power spectrum of near-inflection-point single-field inflation, and could constitute today the dominant component of the dark matter in the universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Ester Ruiz Morales

Because primordial black holes (PBHs) evaporate into all particle species in nature, PBHs may emit several dark matter (DM) particle species with specific mass spectra. We assume that PBHs are the only source of DMs, and DMs only interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-15 Teruyuki Kitabayashi

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) may have formed from the collapse of cosmic string loops. The spectral shape of the PBH mass spectrum can be determined by the scaling argument for string networks. Limits on the spectral amplitude derived from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 U. F. Wichoski , Jane H. MacGibbon , Robert H. Brandenberger

The detection of sub-solar mass black holes is a milestone of modern astrophysics as it would open a window either onto new stellar physics or could potentially unveil the nature of Dark Matter as Primordial Black Holes (PBHs). On November…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Alberto Magaraggia , Nico Cappelluti

Making use of definitive new lattice computations of the Standard Model thermodynamics during the quantum chromodynamic (QCD) phase transition, we calculate the enhancement in the mass distribution of primordial black holes (PBHs) due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-24 Christian T. Byrnes , Mark Hindmarsh , Sam Young , Michael R. S. Hawkins

If primordial black holes (PBHs) formed at the quark-hadron epoch, their mass must be close to the Chandrasekhar limit, this also being the characteristic mass of stars. If they provide the dark matter (DM), the collapse fraction must be of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Bernard Carr , Sebastien Clesse , Juan García-Bellido

We use semi-analytical models to study the effects of primordial black hole (PBH) accretion on the cosmic radiation background during the epoch of reionization ($z\gtrsim 6$). We consider PBHs floating in the intergalactic medium (IGM), and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Saiyang Zhang , Boyuan Liu , Volker Bromm

Ultra-low mass primordial black holes (PBH), which may briefly dominate the energy density of the universe but completely evaporate before the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), can lead to interesting observable signatures. In our previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Anish Ghoshal , Rajeev Kumar Jain , Marek Lewicki

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

Theories of large extra dimensions (LEDs) such as the Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos & Dvali scenario predict a "true" Planck scale $M_\star$ near the TeV scale, while the observed $M_{pl}$ is due to the geometric effect of compact extra…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-05 Avi Friedlander , Katherine J. Mack , Sarah Schon , Ningqiang Song , Aaron C. Vincent

The Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gradually involved into consideration as the phenomenon having reliable basis. We discuss here the possibility of their agglomeration into clusters that may have several prominent observable features.…

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

We explore the possibility of explaining the observed dark matter (DM) relic abundance, along with matter-antimatter asymmetry, entirely from the evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH) beyond the semi-classical approximation. We find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Basabendu Barman , Md Riajul Haque , Óscar Zapata

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are usually assumed to be described by the Schwarzschild or Kerr metrics, which however feature unwelcome singularities. We study the possibility that PBHs are non-singular objects, considering three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Marco Calzà , Davide Pedrotti , Sunny Vagnozzi

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with log-normal mass spectrum with masses up to $\sim 10^4-10^5 M_\odot$ can be created after QCD phase transition in the early Universe at $z\sim 10^{12}$ by the modified Affleck-Dine baryogenesis. Using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Konstantin Postnov , Ilya Chekh

Recent measurements of the cosmic X-ray and radio backgrounds (CXB/CRB, respectively) obtained with Chandra and ARCADE2 report signals in excess of those expected from known sources, suggesting the presence of a yet undiscovered population…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Francesco Ziparo , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Ferrara , Fabio Vito

We study the coupled cosmological evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) and radiation in the Arkani-Hamed-Dimopoulos-Dvali (ADD) framework with $n$ large extra dimensions and a fundamental gravity scale $M_\star$ at the TeV scale. For…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Giuseppe Filiberto Vitale , Gaetano Lambiase , Tanmay Kumar Poddar , Luca Visinelli

Using the global 21-cm signal measurement by the EDGES collaboration, we derive constraints on the fraction of the dark matter that is in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses in the range $10^{15}$-$10^{17}\,$g. Improving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Shikhar Mittal , Anupam Ray , Girish Kulkarni , Basudeb Dasgupta