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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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could provide the dark matter but a variety of constraints restrict the possible mass windows to $10^{16} - 10^{17}$g, $10^{20} - 10^{24}$g and $10 - 10^3M_{\odot}$. The last possibility is of special interest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Bernard Carr

The detection of primordial black holes (PBHs) would mark a major breakthrough, with far-reaching implications for early universe cosmology, fundamental physics, and the nature of dark matter. Gravitational wave observations have recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrea Begnoni , Stefano Profumo

Massive Primordial Black Holes (MPBH) can be formed after inflation due to broad peaks in the primordial curvature power spectrum that collapse gravitationally during the radiation era, to form clusters of black holes that merge and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Juan García-Bellido

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

We perform $3+1$ relativistic numerical simulations to study primordial black hole (PBH) formation from the collapse of adiabatic super-horizon non-spherical perturbations generated from curvature fluctuations obeying random Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Albert Escrivà , Chul-Moon Yoo

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

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) might have formed in the early Universe as a consequence of the collapse of density fluctuations with an amplitude above a critical value $\delta_{c}$: the formation threshold. Although for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 J. L. G. Sobrinho , P. Augusto , A. L. Gonçalves

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are of interest in many cosmological contexts. PBHs lighter than about 1012 kg are predicted to be directly detectable by their Hawking radiation. This radiation should produce both a diffuse extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-05 Jane H MacGibbon , Tilan N. Ukwatta , J. T. Linnemann , S. S. Marinelli , D. Stump , K. Tollefson

We in this paper investigate the formation and evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) in nonsingular bouncing cosmologies. We discuss the formation of PBH in the contracting phase and calculate the PBH abundance as a function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-18 Jie-Wen Chen , Junyu Liu , Hao-Lan Xu , Yi-Fu Cai

In a class of single field models of inflation, the idea of Primordial Black holes(PBHs) production is studied. In this case, the dynamics on small cosmological scales differs significantly from that of the large scales probed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Jayesh C. Jain , Devanshu Sharma , Yogesh

Primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a compelling interpretation for the binary black holes (BBHs) observed by ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, especially for those BBHs in the theoretical mass gap. In the early Universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yan-Chen Bi , Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

We review the formation and evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) and their possible contribution to dark matter. Various constraints suggest they could only provide most of it in the mass windows $10^{17}$ - $10^{23}\,$g or $10$ -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel

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

We study the formation of asteroid-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. We show that the presence of heavy particles predicted in the Minimal Supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Andrea Boccia , Marco Chianese

Recently, a number of novel scenarios for primordial black hole (PBH) formation have been discovered. Some of them require very minimal new physics, some others require no new ingredients besides those already present in commonly considered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko

The formation and abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) arising from the curvature perturbation $\zeta$ is studied. The non-linear relation between $\zeta$ and the density contrast $\delta$ means that, even when $\zeta$ has an exactly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-15 Sam Young , Ilia Musco , Christian T. Byrnes

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) in the mass range $\sim 10^{17}- 10^{22}$g are currently unconstrained, and can constitute the full Dark Matter (DM) density of the universe. Motivated by this, in the current work, we aim to relate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Diptimoy Ghosh , Arvind Kumar Mishra

Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model generically predict that in the early universe a scalar condensate can form and fragment into Q-balls before decaying. If the Q-balls dominate the energy density for some period of time, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Eric Cotner , Alexander Kusenko

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) with masses of order $10-30 M_\odot$ have been proposed as a possible explanation of the gravitational waves emission events recently discovered by the LIGO observatory. If true, then PBHs would constitute a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 Maxim Tkachev , Sergey Pilipenko , Gustavo Yepes