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Using an excursion-set approach, we revisit the initial spatial clustering of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) originating from the Hubble re-entry of large Gaussian density fluctuations in the early universe. We derive the two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Pierre Auclair , Baptiste Blachier

Cosmological observations precisely measure primordial variations in the density of the Universe at megaparsec and larger scales, but much smaller scales remain poorly constrained. However, sufficiently large initial perturbations at small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 M. S. Delos , G. Franciolini

The abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $0.1 - 10^3 M_\odot$ can potentially be tested by gravitational wave observations due to the large merger rate of PBH binaries formed in the early universe. To put the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-01 Martti Raidal , Christian Spethmann , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

We determine the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the context of non-gaussian models with primordial density perturbations. We consider models with a renormalized $\chi^2$ probability distribution function parametrized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 P. P. Avelino

We demonstrate that primordial black holes (PBHs) lighter than $10^9 \, \text{g}$, which evaporated before the Big Bang nucleosynthesis, can induce significant isocurvature perturbations due to their biased clustering amplitude and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 TaeHun Kim , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Donghui Jeong , Dong-Won Jung , Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee

A review of the astronomical data of several last years on an astonishingly high amount of black holes in the contemporary and early ($z\sim 10$) universe is presented. Also the data on the recently observed peculiar stars in the Galaxy are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-07 A. D. Dolgov

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

We examine the effects of massive primordial black holes (PBHs) on cosmic structure formation, employing both a semi-analytical approach and cosmological simulations. Our simulations incorporate PBHs with a monochromatic mass distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Saiyang Zhang , Volker Bromm , Boyuan Liu

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are, typically light, black holes which can form in the early Universe. There are a number of formation mechanisms, including the collapse of large density perturbations, cosmic string loops and bubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Anne M. Green

We consider constraints on primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $( 10^{-18}\text{-}10^{15} )\,M_{\odot}$ if the dark matter (DM) comprises weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) which form halos around them and generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel , Luca Visinelli

The dark and dynamic parts of the Galaxy, including the bulk shape and movement of the Galactic Bulge and characteristics of dark compact object populations, such as a hypothetical population of primordial black holes (PBHs), are difficult…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-31 Scott E. Perkins , Peter McGill , William A. Dawson , Ming-Feng Ho , Natasha S. Abrams , Simeon Bird , Jessica R. Lu

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

We explore the possibility that Dark Matter (DM) may be explained by a non-uniform background of approximately stellar-mass clusters of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), by simulating the evolution them from recombination to the present with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Manuel Trashorras , Juan García-Bellido , Savvas Nesseris

We describe a new scenario for the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). In the early Universe, the long-range forces mediated by the scalar fields can lead to formation of halos of heavy particles even during the radiation-dominated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-28 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko

The lightest Kaluza-Klein (KK) dark matter particles and primordial black holes (PBHs) emerge as plausible candidates for dark matter. In scenarios where dark matter is a mix of KK particles and PBHs, PBHs can attract surrounding KK dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yupeng Yang , Qianyong Li , Jiali Hao , Xiujuan Li

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are the plausible candidates for the cosmological dark matter. Theoretically, PBHs with masses $M_{\rm PBH}$ in the range of $4\times10^{14}\sim 10^{17}\,{\rm g}$ can emit sub-GeV electrons and positrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 Bing-Yu Su , Xu Pan , Guan-Sen Wang , Lei Zu , Yupeng Yang , Lei Feng

Next-generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to observe millions of binary black hole mergers, a fraction of which will be strongly lensed by intervening galaxies or clusters, producing multiple images with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Huan Zhou , Bin Liu , Zheng-Xiang Li , Xi-Jing Wang , Kai Liao

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a compelling dark matter candidate and a unique probe of small-scale cosmological fluctuations. Their formation is usually attributed to large positive curvature perturbations, which collapse upon Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Cristian Joana , Zi-Yan Yuwen

Aims. This study investigates the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) in shaping cosmic radiation backgrounds--the cosmic X-ray background (CXB), the Lyman-Werner background (LWB), and the cosmic radio background (CRB)--and evaluates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 C. Casanueva-Villarreal , N. Padilla , P. B. Tissera , B. Liu , V. Bromm