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Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) can form in the radiation dominated early Universe from the collapse of large density perturbations produced by inflation. A power-law parameterisation of the primordial power spectrum is often used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Anne M. Green

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) from peaks in the curvature power spectrum could constitute today an important fraction of the Dark Matter in the Universe. At horizon reentry, during the radiation era, order one fluctuations collapse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-31 Sebastien Clesse , Juan García-Bellido , Stefano Orani

Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH) with masses ranging from $\sim 10^{-1}$ to $\sim 10^9$ g can generate the whole observed dark matter (DM) relic density. However, a second DM production mechanism, like freeze-out or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Nicolás Bernal , Óscar Zapata

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have opened a tantalising new window onto possible black holes as early as redshifts of $z \sim 10.4$. These show a number of puzzling properties including unexpectedly massive black holes in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-04 Pratika Dayal , Roberto maiolino

We study the generation of primordial black holes (PBH) in a single field inflection point model of inflation wherein the effective potential is expanded up to the sextic order and the inversion symmetry is imposed such that only even…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-20 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a useful tool in cosmology to probe primordial inhomogeneities on small scales that reenter the Hubble radius during the radiation dominated epoch. In this paper, a phenomenon we call the double formation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-20 Tomohiro Nakama

We show that supersymmetry and inflation, in a broad class of models, generically lead to formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) that can account for dark matter. Supersymmetry predicts a number of scalar fields that develop a coherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe have been connected with the nature of dark matter and can significantly affect cosmological history. We show that coincidence dark radiation and density fluctuation gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Guillem Domènech , Volodymyr Takhistov , Misao Sasaki

The frequent detection of binary mergers of $\sim 30 M_{\odot}$ black holes (BHs) by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) rekindled researchers' interest in primordial BHs (PBHs) being dark matter (DM). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Yuan Gao , Xiaojia Zhang , Meng Su

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form before cosmological first-order phase transitions, leading to inevitable collisions between PBHs and bubble walls. In this Letter, we have simulated for the first time the co-evolution of an expanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Zi-Yan Yuwen , Cristian Joana , Shao-Jiang Wang , Rong-Gen Cai

Scalar field with generalized kinetic interactions metamorphoses depending on its field value, ranging from cosmological constant to stiff matter. We show that such a scalar field can give rise to temporal enhancement of the curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 Teruaki Suyama , Yi-Peng Wu , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe, for instance during radiation domination, from the collapse of large-amplitude density perturbations shortly after horizon re-entry. This mechanism establishes an approximate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ashu Kushwaha , Teruaki Suyama

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) provide a powerful probe of early-universe physics, linking inflationary fluctuations to observable cosmological phenomena. In this work, we use a bottom-up approach to study how PBHs with masses in the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Tianning Wang , Evan Grohs , Laura Mersini-Houghton

Primordial black holes (PBHs) that form in the early Universe in the modified Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism of baryogenesis should have intrinsic log-normal mass distribution of PBHs. We show that the parameters of this distribution adjusted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 A. Dolgov , K. Postnov

Sufficiently large scalar perturbations in the early Universe can create over-dense regions that collapse into primordial black holes (PBH). This process is accompanied by the emission of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Junsong Cang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Yu Gao

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

Primordial black hole (PBH) binaries forming in the early Universe may contribute to the merger events observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaborations. Moreover, the inferred merger rate constraints the fraction of PBH with masses $m \sim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-19 Viktor Stasenko , Konstantin Belotsky

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with mass $10^{16}-10^{17}$ g almost escape constraints from observations so could essentially contribute to dark matter density. Hawking evaporation of such PBHs produces with a steady rate $\gamma$- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 K. M. Belotsky , A. A. Kirillov

Primordial black holes form in the early Universe and constitute one of the most viable candidates for dark matter. The study of their formation process requires the determination of a critical energy density perturbation threshold…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Theodoros Papanikolaou

Cold dark matter (CDM) could be composed of primordial black holes (PBH) in addition to or instead of more orthodox weakly interacting massive particle dark matter (PDM). We study the formation of the first structures in such $\Lambda$PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Derek Inman , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud