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In a mixed dark matter scenario in which primordial black holes (PBHs) would co-exist with thermally produced self-annihilating particles, one expects the former to be surrounded by extremely dense halos made of the latter, built up during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Julien Lavalle , Vivian Poulin , Pierre Salati

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) are able to produce light dark matter (DM) particles via Hawking radiation, and yield a flux of boosted DM that can be probed at underground DM direct detection experiments. We analyze both galactic and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Tong Zhu , Cheng-Rui Jiang , Tong Li , Jiajun Liao

Particle dark matter and primordial black holes (PBH) might coexist with appreciable cosmic abundances, with both contributing to the observed dark matter density $\Omega_{\rm DM}$. Large populations of PBH (with $\Omega_{\rm PBH}\sim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Prolay Chanda , Sagnik Mukherjee , James Unwin

Supermassive black holes and intermediate mass black holes are believed to exist in the Universe. There is no established astrophysical explanation for their origin and considerations have been made in the literature that those massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-17 Kazunori Kohri , Tomohiro Nakama , Teruaki Suyama

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

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

In this letter, we propose a novel scenario which simultaneously explains $\mathcal{O}(10)M_\odot$ primordial black holes (PBHs) and dark matter in the minimally supersymmetric standard model. Gravitational waves (GWs) events detected by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Fuminori Hasegawa , Masahiro Kawasaki

Recently, observational hints for supermassive black holes have been accumulating, which has inspired ones to wonder: Can primordial black holes (PBHs) be supermassive, in particular with the mass $M\gtrsim 10^{9}M_\odot$? A supercritical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-03 Hai-Long Huang , Yong Cai , Jun-Qian Jiang , Jun Zhang , Yun-Song Piao

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are those which may have formed in the early Universe and affected the subsequent evolution of the Universe through their Hawking radiation and gravitational field. To constrain the early Universe from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Tomohiro Harada

We show that primordial (nearly) extremal black holes with a wide range of masses from the Planck scale to around $10^9$ g could be cosmologically stable and explain dark matter, given a dark electromagnetism and a heavy dark electron. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Yang Bai , Nicholas Orlofsky

Primordial Black Hole Remnants(PBHRs) can be considered as a primary source of cold dark matter. Hybrid inflation provides a possible framework for production of primordial black holes(PBHs) and these PBHs evaporate subsequently to produce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 Kourosh Nozari

Observations by the MACHO collaboration indicate that a significant fraction of the galactic halo dark matter may be in form of compact objects with masses $M\sim 0.5M_{\odot}$. Identification of these objects as red or white dwarfs is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Karsten Jedamzik

Even if massive ($10\,M_\odot \lesssim M \lesssim 10^4 M_\odot$) primordial black holes (PBHs) can only account for a small fraction of the dark matter (DM) in the universe, they may still be responsible for a sizable fraction of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Pasquale D. Serpico , Vivian Poulin , Derek Inman , Kazunori Kohri

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could account for all or part of dark matter, as well as for some LIGO events. We discuss the spins of primordial black holes produced in different cosmological scenarios, with the emphasis on recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-06 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko

Primordial black holes in the mass range from $10^{-5}$ to $10^9$ g might have existed in the early universe. Via their evaporation mechanism (completed before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis), they might have released stable particles beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-18 Isabella Masina

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

In this work we propose a novel campaign for constraining relativistically compact MACHO dark matter, such as primordial black holes (PBHs), using the moon as a detector. PBHs of about $10^{19} \textrm{ g}$ to $10^{22} \textrm{ g}$ may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Almog Yalinewich , Matthew E. Caplan

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes which may form in the early Universe through the gravitational collapse of primordial cosmological density fluctuations. Due to Hawking radiation these PBHs are supposed to evaporate by emitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 V. B. Petkov , E. V. Bugaev , P. A. Klimai

The photons emitted by primordial black holes (PBHs) can be a heating factor for interstellar dust. Assuming that dust in the Galaxy has a homogeneous distribution and that PBHs have the same distribution as dark matter (DM), we constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 A. N. Melikhov , E. V. Mikheeva