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Various mechanisms have been suggested for the formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), and this thesis focuses on the standard mechanism based on the critical collapse of cosmological fluctuations. The underlying idea is that during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Antonio Junior Iovino

We investigate how Hawking radiation from low-mass primordial black holes deposits energy into the early-universe plasma and show that the resulting phenomena are hydrodynamic rather than purely diffusive. Combining analytic arguments with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Miguel Vanvlasselaer , Sokratis Trifinopoulos , Alexandra P. Klipfel , David I. Kaiser

Based on the previously formulated theory of spherical perturbations in the cosmological medium of self-gravitating scalarly charged fermions with the Higgs scalar interaction and the similarity properties of such models, the formation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

We describe a mechanism of the primordial black holes formation that can explain the existence of a population of supermassive black holes in galactic bulges. The mechanism is based on the formation of black holes from closed domain walls.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maxim. Yu. Khlopov , Sergei. G. Rubin , Alexander. S. Sakharov

A mechanism of creation of stellar-like objects in the very early universe, from the QCD phase transition till BBN and somewhat later, is studied. It is argued that in the considered process primordial black holes with masses above a few…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 A. D. Dolgov , S. I. Blinnikov

Primordial black holes (PBH) can form in the early Universe from peaks of the primordial curvature perturbations. The statistics of the peaks determines the abundance of PBHs, and is related to the amplitude of the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Alexander Gallego Cadavid , Antonio Enea Romano

Primordial black holes (PBHs) constitute a compelling dark matter candidate whose gravitational effects could significantly influence early cosmic structure formation. We investigate the impact of PBHs on Population III star formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Julia Monika Koulen , Stefano Profumo , Nolan Smyth

A possibility of pregalactic seeds of the Active Galactic Nuclei can be a nontrivial cosmological consequence of particle theory. Such seeds can appear as Primordial Black Hole (PBH) clusters, formed in the succession of phase transitions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 M. Yu. Khlopov , N. A. Chasnikov

We use cosmological hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations and semi-analytical models to study the effects of primordial black holes (PBHs) on first star formation. Our models self-consistently combine two competing effects: initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Boyuan Liu , Saiyang Zhang , Volker Bromm

We recently studied the formation and evaporation of primordial black holes in a simple braneworld cosmology, namely Randall-Sundrum Type II. Here we study the effect of accretion from the cosmological background onto the black holes after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Raf Guedens , Dominic Clancy , Andrew R Liddle

A key result of hydrogravitational dynamics cosmology relevant to astrobiology is the early formation of vast numbers of hot primordial-gas planets in million-solar-mass clumps as the dark matter of galaxies and the hosts of first life.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Carl H. Gibson , N. Chandra Wickramasinghe , Rudolph E. Schild

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form from gravitational collapse of large overdensities in the early Universe, giving rise to rich phenomena in astrophysics and cosmology. We develop a novel, general, and systematic method based on theory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki , Volodymyr Takhistov , Jianing Wang

Recent gravitational wave (GW) observations of binary black hole (BH) mergers and the stochastic GW background have triggered renewed interest in primordial black holes (PBHs) in the stellar-mass ($\sim 10 - 100\ \rm M_\odot$) and…

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The existence of high-$z$ over-massive supermassive black holes represents a major conundrum in our understanding of black hole evolution. In this paper, we probe from the observational point of view how early Universe environmental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-30 Marko Mićić , Jimmy A. Irwin , Preethi Nair , Brenna N. Wells , Olivia J. Holmes , Jackson T. Eames

We solve dynamical equations of motion to determine the conditions under which an over-dense region in the early universe will lead to collapse to a black hole, starting from horizon crossing of the over-dense region to the point of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-11 Joseph I. Kapusta , Todd Springer

We demonstrate that violent kinetic preheating following inflation can lead to the formation of black holes in the early Universe. In $\alpha$-attractor models with derivative inflaton couplings, nonlinear amplification of field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Peter Adshead , Eve Currens , John T. Giblin

We calculate the exact formation probability of primordial black holes generated during the collapse at horizon re-entry of large fluctuations produced during inflation, such as those ascribed to a period of ultra-slow-roll. We show that it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-02 Matteo Biagetti , Valerio De Luca , Gabriele Franciolini , Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

We study how the constraints on the primordial black hole density arising from the extragalactic photon background are modified in the scenario that there exist extra large spatial dimensions. We find that though the overall magnitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 George Johnson

We show that primordial black holes - in the observationally allowed mass window with $f_{\rm pbh}=1$ - formed from late nucleating patches in a first order phase transition imply upcoming gravitational wave interferometers will see a large…

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