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Large-amplitude density perturbations may have collapsed during the radiation dominated epoch of the Universe to form primordial black holes (PBHs). There are several constraints to the abundance of PBHs that stem from evaporation or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski

We investigate constraints on primordial black holes (PBHs) as dark matter candidates that arise from their capture by neutron stars (NSs). If a PBH is captured by a NS, the star is accreted onto the PBH and gets destroyed in a very short…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Fabio Capela , Maxim Pshirkov , Peter Tinyakov

We present the analysis on our new limits of the dark matter (DM) halo consisting of primordial black holes (PBHs) or massive compact halo objects (MACHOs). We present a search of the first two years of publicly available Kepler mission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kim Griest , Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Matthew J. Lehner

Although dark matter in galaxies may consist of elementary particles different from those that make up ordinary matter and that would be smoothly distributed (still undetected), the so-called primordial black holes (PBHs) formed soon after…

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have attracted intensive research interest as a promising candidate of dark matter. However, because of the Hawking radiation, the PBHs lighter than $10^{15}~\rm{g}$ have already evaporated before today. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jin-Rong Du , Zi-Zhuo Zhang , Nan Li

Primordial black holes (PBHs) might be formed in the early Universe and could comprise at least a fraction of the dark matter. Using the recently released GWTC-2 dataset from the third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Kaze W. K. Wong , Gabriele Franciolini , Valerio De Luca , Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti , Paolo Pani , Antonio Riotto

In a Universe with nearly-Gaussian initial curvature perturbations, the abundance of primordial black holes can be derived from the curvature power spectrum. When the latter is enhanced within a narrow range around a characteristic scale,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Jacopo Fumagalli , Jaume Garriga , Cristiano Germani , Ravi K. Sheth

We explore the observational implications of a model in which primordial black holes (PBHs) with a broad birth mass function ranging in mass from a fraction of a solar mass to $\sim$10$^6$ M$_{\odot}$, consistent with current observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Nico Cappelluti , Günther Hasinger , Priyamvada Natarajan

Black hole relics are of significant interest in cosmology and theoretical physics. In this work, we consider tiny primordial black holes (PBHs) ( $M_{\text {PBH }} \lesssim 10^7 \mathrm{~g}$ ) which are generated soon after the end of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Misao Sasaki , Jianing Wang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a profound signature of primordial cosmological structures and provide a theoretical tool to study nontrivial physics of the early Universe. The mechanisms of PBH formation are discussed and observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Yu. Khlopov

It has been claimed in Ref.[arXiv:1712.02240] that massive primordial black holes (PBH) cannot constitute all of the dark matter (DM), because their gravitational-lensing imprint on the Hubble diagram of type Ia supernovae (SN) would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Sebastien Clesse , Pierre Fleury

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

We study the consequences of supersymmetry for primordial black hole (PBH) abundance constraints. PBHs with mass less than about 10^{11}g will emit supersymmetric particles when they evaporate. In most models of supersymmetry the lightest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne M. Green

Models in which dark matter consists entirely of primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses around $10^{17}$ g are currently unconstrained. However, if PBHs are a component of the Galactic dark matter density, they will inject a large flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 William DeRocco , Peter W. Graham

The so-called memory-burden effect implies that evaporating Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) inevitably stabilize before complete decay. This stabilization opens a new mass window for PBH Dark Matter below $10^{15}\,$g. The transition to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-18 Alessandro Dondarini , Giulio Marino , Paolo Panci , Michael Zantedeschi

We investigate the effects of producing dark matter by Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in scenarios that may have a second well-motivated dark matter production mechanism, such as freeze-out, freeze-in, or gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-25 Paolo Gondolo , Pearl Sandick , Barmak Shams Es Haghi

We examine the extent to which primordial black holes (PBHs) can constitute the observed dark matter while also giving rise to the measured matter-antimatter asymmetry and account for the observed baryon abundance through asymmetric Hawking…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Alexis Boudon , Benjamin Bose , Hyat Huang , Lucas Lombriser

Stellar microlensing observations tightly constrain compact object dark matter in the mass range $(10^{-11} - 10^{3}) M_{\odot}$. Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) form clusters, and it has been argued that these microlensing constraints are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Matthew Gorton , Anne M. Green

In this paper we revisit thermodynamic constraints on primordial black hole (PBH) formation in the early universe. Under the assumption that PBH mass is equal to the cosmological horizon mass, one can use the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 James R. Chisholm

We consider the application of peaks theory to the calculation of the number density of peaks relevant for primordial black hole (PBH) formation. For PBHs, the final mass is related to the amplitude and scale of the perturbation from which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 Sam Young , Marcello Musso