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In this paper, we show that the initial clustering of supermassive primordial black holes (SMPBHs) beyond a Poisson distribution can efficiently enhance the matter power spectrum, and thus the halo mass function. As a result, the population…

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We revisit the question of how generic is the formation of primordial black holes via self-resonant growth of inflaton fluctuations in the post-inflationary, preheating phase. Using analytical and lattice calculations, we find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Guillermo Ballesteros , Joaquim Iguaz Juan , Paquale D. Serpico , Marco Taoso

Making use of the primordially isocurvature fluctuations, which are generated in inflationary models with multiple scalar fields, we make a phenomenological model that predicts formation of primordial black holes which can account for the…

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We discuss the model of the primordial black holes formation at the reheating stage. These small massive black holes appear due to specific properties of the compact extra dimensions. The latter gives rise the low energy model containing…

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We present a theoretical model in which the recently detected over-massive black holes (OBHs), and possibly Little Red Dots (LRDs), arise during a halo-driven transient phase preceding the established coevolution of supermassive black holes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-19 Ritik Sharma , Mahavir Sharma

It is shown that in a number of scalar potentials with an unstable local maximum at the origin chaotic inflation is followed by new inflation if model parameters are appropriately chosen. In this model density fluctuation can have a…

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We propose a new mechanism of primordial black hole formation via an interrupted phase transition during the early matter-dominated stage of reheating after inflation. In reheating, induced by the decay of a pressureless fluid dominating…

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Next generation cosmic microwave background spectral distortion and pulsar timing array experiments have the potential to probe primordial fluctuations at small scales with remarkable sensitivity. We demonstrate the potential of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Caner Unal , Ely D. Kovetz , Subodh P. Patil

If primordial black holes (PBHs) form directly from inhomogeneities in the early Universe, then the number in the mass range $10^5 -10^{12}M_{\odot}$ is severely constrained by upper limits to the $\mu$ distortion in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Tomohiro Nakama , Bernard Carr , Joseph Silk

During the preheating process at the end of inflation the amplification of field fluctuations can lead to the amplification of curvature perturbations. If the curvature perturbations on small scales are sufficiently large, primordial black…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-31 Anne M Green , Karim A Malik

Before reionization, the intergalactic medium (IGM) may have been sufficiently cold for low-mass "minihalos" to condense out of the gas and subsequently affect reionization. Previous work has shown that minihalos generate reasonably large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven Furlanetto , S. Peng Oh

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the early Universe during a period of slow reheating after inflation. We demonstrate how the PBH formation mechanism may change even before the end of the matter-dominated phase and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Bernard Carr , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Charlotte Owen , Tommi Tenkanen

Microscopic black holes explode with their temperature varying inversely as their mass. Such explosions would lead to the highest temperatures in the present universe, all the way to the Planck energy. The possibility that a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph I Kapusta

The possibility that primordial black hole binary mergers of stellar mass can explain the signals detected by the gravitational-wave interferometers has attracted much attention. In this scenario, primordial black holes can comprise only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-01 Tomohiro Nakama , Kazunori Kohri , Joseph Silk

For a Gaussian spectrum of primordial density fluctuations, ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) of dark matter are expected to be produced in much greater abundance than, e.g., primordial black holes. Forming shortly after matter-radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-19 Torsten Bringmann , Pat Scott , Yashar Akrami

Supermassive black holes exist in the centers of galaxies, including Milky Way, but there is no compelling theory of their formation. Furthermore, observations of quasars imply that supermassive black holes have already existed at some very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-16 Masahiro Kawasaki , Alexander Kusenko , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Primordial black holes may owe their origin to the small-scale enhancement of the comoving curvature perturbation generated during inflation. Their mass fraction at formation is markedly sensitive to possible non-Gaussianities in such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 G. Franciolini , A. Kehagias , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

The formation of primordial black holes in the early universe may happen through the collapse of large curvature perturbations generated during a non-attractor phase of inflation or through a curvaton-like dynamics after inflation. The fact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Gabriele Franciolini , Andrea Ianniccari , Alex Kehagias , Davide Perrone , Antonio Riotto

The existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses greater than $\sim 10^{9}M_{\odot}$ at high redshift ($z\gtrsim 7$) is difficult to accommodate in standard astrophysical scenarios. We study the possibility that (nearly)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 Huangyu Xiao , Xuejian Shen , Philip F. Hopkins , Kathryn M. Zurek

It has been shown by Shchekinov & Vasiliev2006 (SV06) that HD molecules can be an important cooling agent in high redshift z >10 haloes if they undergo mergers under specific conditions so suitable shocks are created. Here we build upon…

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