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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are considered viable candidates for dark matter and the seeds of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), with their fruitful physical influences providing significant insights into the conditions of the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-30 Junyue Yang , Xiaoding Wang , Xiao-Han Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Sheng-Feng Yan , Amara Ilyas , Yi-Fu Cai

While no gravitational-wave detection of subsolar mass black holes has been confirmed to date, a number of candidate detections invite us to speculate on the origin of such black holes should a detection be confirmed. It is generally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

The formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) through the collapse of large fluctuations in the early universe is a rare event. This manifests itself, for instance, through the non-Gaussian tail of the formation probability. To compute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 V. De Luca , A. Riotto

The nonbaryonic dark matter of the Universe is assumed to consist of new stable forms of matter. Their stability reflects symmetry of micro world and mechanisms of its symmetry breaking. In the early Universe heavy metastable particles can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-22 K. M. Belotsky , A. D. Dmitriev , E. A. Esipova , V. A. Gani , A. V. Grobov , M. Yu. Khlopov , A. A. Kirillov , S. G. Rubin , I. V. Svadkovsky

We consider the formation of horizon-size primordial black holes (PBH's) from pre-existing density fluctuations during cosmic phase transitions. It is pointed out that the formation of PBH's should be particularly efficient during the QCD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 K. Jedamzik

It has been suggested that primordial black holes (PBHs) of roughly 30 solar masses could make up the dark matter and if so, might account for the recent detections by LIGO involving binary black holes in this mass range. It has also been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Hiroya Nishikawa , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski , Joseph Silk

We study the possibility of the Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) formation with the aim of finding a considerable fraction of Dark Matter (DM), using the gravitationally enhanced friction mechanism which arises from a nonminimal derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-20 Zeinab Teimoori , Kazem Rezazadeh , Kayoomars Karami

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a compelling candidate for Dark Matter (DM). There remain significant parameter spaces to be explored despite current astrophysical observations have set strong limits. Utilizing advanced MeV observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Zhen Xie , Bing Liu , Jiahao Liu , Yi-Fu Cai , Ruizhi Yang

We numerically study the primordial black hole (PBH) formation by an isocurvature perturbation of a massless scalar field on super Hubble scales in the radiation-dominated universe. As a first step we perform simulations of spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Chul-Moon Yoo , Tomohiro Harada , Shin'ichi Hirano , Hirotada Okawa , Misao Sasaki

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed during first-order phase transitions provide a powerful link between the early-universe microphysics and observable signatures today, including dark matter and gravitational waves. In this work we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Mudit Rai

Primordial black hole (PBH) formation from first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) combines two prevalent elements of beyond the Standard Model physics with wide-ranging consequences. We elaborate on a recently proposed scenario in which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Kiyoharu Kawana , TaeHun Kim , Philip Lu

Various mechanisms have been suggested for the formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), and this thesis focuses on the standard mechanism based on the critical collapse of cosmological fluctuations. The underlying idea is that during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Antonio Junior Iovino

We propose a novel mechanism of primordial black hole (PBH) formation through inverted bubble collapse. In this scenario, bubbles nucleate sparsely in an incomplete first-order phase transition, such that they remain isolated and do not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Kai Murai , Kodai Sakurai , Fuminobu Takahashi

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…

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 study possibilities to explain the whole dark matter abundance by primordial black holes (PBHs) or to explain the merger rate of binary black holes estimated from the gravitational wave detections by LIGO/Virgo. We assume that the PBHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

Following a new microlensing constraint on primordial black holes (PBHs) with $\sim10^{20}$--$10^{28}\,\mathrm{g}$~[1], we revisit the idea of PBH as all Dark Matter (DM). We have shown that the updated observational constraints suggest the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Dark matter could comprise, at least in part, primordial black holes (PBH). To test this hypothesis, we present an approach to constrain the PBH mass ($M_{\rm{PBH}}$) and mass fraction ($f_{\rm{PBH}}$) from the flux ratios of quadruply…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-12 Veronica Dike , Daniel Gilman , Tommaso Treu

This is a review article on the primordial black holes (PBHs), with particular focus on the massive ones ($\gtrsim 10^{15}{\rm g}$) which have not evaporated by the present epoch by the Hawking radiation. By the detections of gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Misao Sasaki , Teruaki Suyama , Takahiro Tanaka , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Primordial black holes~(PBHs) formed in the early Universe are well-motivated dark matter~(DM) candidates over a wide range of masses. These PBHs could emit detectable signals in the form of photons, electrons, and neutrinos through Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Qishan Liu , Kenny C. Y. Ng