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This work investigates the formation of primordial black holes within a radiation fluid with an anisotropic pressure. We focus our attention on the initial conditions describing cosmological perturbations in the super horizon regime, using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-25 Ilia Musco , Theodoros Papanikolaou

We consider the process of primordial black hole (PBH) formation originated from primordial curvature perturbations produced during waterfall transition (with tachyonic instability), at the end of hybrid inflation. It is known that in such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-08 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) through delayed vacuum decay during slow cosmic first-order phase transitions. Two specific models, the polynomial potential and the real singlet extension of the Standard Model,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Shinya Kanemura , Masanori Tanaka , Ke-Pan Xie

Recent observational constraints indicate that primordial black holes (PBHs) with the mass scale $\sim 10^{-12}M_{\odot}$ can explain most of dark matter in the Universe. To produce this kind of PBHs, we need an enhance in the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

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

See thesis for complete abstract. Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early universe, and there are several mass windows in which their abundance today may be large enough to comprise a significant part of the dark matter density.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Eloy de Jong

The Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gradually involved into consideration as the phenomenon having reliable basis. We discuss here the possibility of their agglomeration into clusters that may have several prominent observable features.…

Formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) on astrophysical mass scales is a natural consequence of inflationary cosmology if the primordial perturbation spectrum has a large and negative running of the spectral index as observationally…

This study presents a new framework to explore the fundamental relationship between gravity and quantum mechanics, with particular emphasis on the fundamental role of primordial black holes (PBHs) in cosmology. Through the concept of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Victor Borsevici , Samit Ganguly , Goutam Manna

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes which may have formed very early on during the radiation dominated era in the early universe. We present here a method by which the large scale perturbations in the density of primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Sam Young , Christian T. Byrnes

We consider several early Universe models that allow for production of large curvature perturbations at small scales. As is well known, such perturbations can lead to formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). We briefly review the today's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-10 P. A. Klimai , E. V. Bugaev

Recent discoveries of primordial black hole (PBH) candidates by means of high cadence microlensing open the way to a physical understanding of the formation of dark matter as a chapter in the thermal history of the Universe. Two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Jeremy Mould

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

We investigate the viability of primordial black hole (PBH) formation in the Standard Model (SM) in a scenario that does not rely on specific inflationary features or any exotic physics such as phase transitions or non-minimal coupling to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ioanna Stamou , Sebastien Clesse

We study the formation of primordial black holes when they are generated by the collapse of large overdensities in the early universe. Since the density contrast is related to the comoving curvature perturbation by a nonlinear relation, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-01 V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Kehagias , M. Peloso , A. Riotto , C. Ünal

We study the possibility of production of primordial black holes (PBHs) from bubble collisions during a first-order phase transition. While typical colliding bubbles are small and irrelevant for PBH production, we find that those that can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Tae Hyun Jung , Takemichi Okui

Within the framework of inflationary model with field-dependent kinetic term for quartic and natural potentials, we investigate generation of the primordial black holes (PBHs) and induced gravitational waves (GWs). In this setup, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-12 Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

Ultralight primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a compelling window into early-Universe cosmology. Following our earlier work, we explore a mechanism for the formation of ultralight PBHs sourced by primordial inflationary magnetic fields,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Subhasis Maiti , Debaprasad Maity

We present a complete analytic and semi-analytic study of gravitational collapse and primordial black hole (PBH) formation in the quadratic $f(R)$ model $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2$. We first derive the perturbative expansion around General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 G. G. L. Nashed

In the presence of the local-type primordial non-Gaussianity, it is known that the clustering of primordial black holes (PBHs) emerges even on super-horizon scales at the formation time. This effect has been investigated in the high-peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-03 Takahiko Matsubara , Takahiro Terada , Kazunori Kohri , Shuichiro Yokoyama