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Primordial black holes (PBHs) have been explored as potential dark matter candidates, with various astrophysical observations placing upper limits on the fraction $f_\mathrm{PBH}$ of dark matter in the form of PBHs. However, a largely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Nabendu Kumar Khan , Anupam Ray , Girish Kulkarni , Basudeb Dasgupta

The possibility that dark matter particles could be constituted by extreme regular primordial black holes is discussed. Extreme black holes have zero surface temperature, and are not subjected to the Hawking evaporation process. Assuming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-14 José Antonio de Freitas Pacheco

We review numerous arguments for primordial black holes (PBHs) based on observational evidence from a variety of lensing, dynamical, accretion and gravitational-wave effects. This represents a shift from the usual emphasis on PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Bernard Carr , Sebastien Clesse , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Michael Hawkins , Florian Kuhnel

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) from the collapse of spherically symmetric domain wall bubbles, which spontaneously nucleate via quantum tunneling during inflation. Since the tension of domain walls changes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in strongly supercooled first-order phase transitions. The mechanism is based on the presence of remnants dominated by the false vacuum that scale slower with the expansion of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Marek Lewicki , Piotr Toczek , Ville Vaskonen

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) may form in the early universe when pre-existing adiabatic density fluctuations enter into the cosmological horizon and recollapse. It has been suggested that PBH formation may be facilitated when fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Jedamzik , J. C. Niemeyer

The discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos by IceCube marked the beginning of neutrino astronomy. Yet, the origin and production mechanisms of these neutrinos remain an open question. With the observation of several neutrino events with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Lua F. T. Airoldi , Gustavo F. S. Alves , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Gabriel M. Salla , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

In this paper, we show that if passive fluctuations are considered, primordial black holes (PBHs) can be easily produced in the framework of single-field, slow-roll inflation models. The formation of PBHs is due to the blue spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Chia-Min Lin , Kin-Wang Ng

It has long been suggested that a fraction of the dark matter in the Universe could exist in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) that have existed since the radiation dominated era. Recent studies have suggested that these PBHs may be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Lewis R. Prole , John A. Regan , Daxal Mehta , Peter Coles , Pratika Dayal

The 511 keV gamma emission from the galactic core may originate from a high concentration ($\sim 10^{22}$) of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the core each of whose Hawking radiation includes $\sim 10^{21}$ positrons per second. The PBHs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul H. Frampton , Thomas W. Kephart

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the asteroid-mass range, with typical masses $10^{17}\,{\rm g}\lesssim M \lesssim 10^{23}\,{\rm g}$, have drawn significant recent attention as a viable dark matter candidate. The peak frequencies of photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Alexandra P. Klipfel , David I. Kaiser

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $10^{-16}-10^{-11}~M_\odot$ may constitute all the dark matter. We show that gravitational microlensing of bright x-ray pulsars provide the most robust and immediately implementable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-03 Manish Tamta , Nirmal Raj , Prateek Sharma

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) remain a Dark Matter (DM) candidate of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Previously, we proposed a new method of constraining the remaining PBH DM mass range using microlensing of stars monitored by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Kim Griest

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) have entered the forefront of theoretical cosmology, due their potential role in phenomena ranging from gravitational waves, to dark matter, to galaxy formation. While producing PBHs from inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Keisuke Inomata , Evan McDonough , Wayne Hu

We study the evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) in an adiabatic FLRW universe with dissipation due to bulk viscosity which is considered to be in the form of gravitational particle creation. Assuming that the process of evaporation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Subhajit Saha , Abdulla Al Mamon , Somnath Saha

In this $\textit{Letter}$, we search for the signal of the primordial black holes (PBHs) by correlating the $\gamma$-ray emissions in the MeV energy band produced by the Hawking evaporation and the lensing effect of the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Xiu-Hui Tan , Yang-Jie Yan , Taotao Qiu , Jun-Qing Xia

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) forming prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis evolve during the reheating epoch, an environment dominated by an oscillating inflaton field decaying into a relativistic thermal bath. In this work, we track the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jitumani Kalita , Debaprasad Maity

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are dark matter candidates that span broad mass ranges from $10^{-17}$ $M_\odot$ to $\sim 100$ $M_\odot$. We show that the stochastic gravitational wave background can be a powerful window for the detection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Suvodip Mukherjee , Matthew S. P. Meinema , Joseph Silk

Primordial black holes can have substantial spin -- a fundamental property that has a strong effect on its evaporation rate. We conduct a comprehensive study of the detectability of primordial black holes with non-negligible spin, via the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Basudeb Dasgupta , Ranjan Laha , Anupam Ray