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We show that density spikes begin to form from dark matter particles around primordial black holes immediately after their formation at the radiation-dominated cosmological stage. This follows from the fact that in the thermal velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-10 Yu. N. Eroshenko

The evaporation of primordial black holes provides a promising dark matter production mechanism without relying on any non-gravitational interactions between the dark sector and the Standard Model. In theories of ``Large'' Extra Dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-05 Avi Friedlander , Ningqiang Song , Aaron C. Vincent

The evaporation of primordial black holes with a mass in the $1\ {\rm gram}\lesssim M_{\rm PBH}\lesssim$1000 kg range can lead to the production of dark matter particles of almost any mass in the range $0.1\ {\rm MeV}\lesssim m_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 Logan Morrison , Stefano Profumo , Yan Yu

We explore the possibility that the annihilation of dark matter (DM) is boosted due to enhanced substructure in the presence of primordial black holes (PBHs) which constitute a sub-component of DM. The PBHs can generate entropy fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Kenji Kadota , Joseph Silk

Sufficiently light primordial black holes (PBH) could evaporate in the very early universe and dilute the preexisting baryon asymmetry and/or the frozen density of stable relics. The effect is especially strong in the case that PBHs decayed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 A. Chaudhuri , A. Dolgov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) hypothetically generated in the first instants of life of the Universe are potential dark matter (DM) candidates. Focusing on PBHs masses in the range $[5 \times10^{14} - 5 \times 10^{15}]$g, we point out that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-14 Roberta Calabrese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Stefano Morisi , Antonio Palazzo

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

Current multi-tonne-scale dark matter (DM) detectors are largely incapable of detecting light dark matter from the Galactic halo due to the energy threshold limitations of their recoil measurements. However, primordial black holes (PBHs)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 Sk Jeesun , Anirban Majumdar , Rahul Srivastava

Although the dark matter is usually assumed to be some form of elementary particle, primordial black holes (PBHs) could also provide some of it. However, various constraints restrict the possible mass windows to $10^{16}$ - $10^{17}\,$g,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel

We revisit the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) by a U(1) gauge field with a pseudo-scalar coupling to the inflaton. We improve upon the existing literature by working in the homogeneous backreaction regime with numerically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Gabriele Franciolini , Nadir Ijaz , Marco Peloso

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

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the early Universe during a period of slow reheating after inflation. We demonstrate how the PBH formation mechanism may change even before the end of the matter-dominated phase and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Bernard Carr , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Charlotte Owen , Tommi Tenkanen

We study the evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early universe in the presence of a surrounding thermal bath. By incorporating the effects of thermal absorption, we show that PBHs can undergo significant mass growth,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Md Riajul Haque , Rajesh Karmakar , Yann Mambrini

The unitary bound restricts thermal relics to be lighter than $100$ TeV. This work investigates the production of ultraheavy dark matter and WIMPs in the presence of primordial black holes. Firstly, we describe how Hawking evaporation can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-27 Giorgio Arcadi , Manfred Lindner , Jacinto P. Neto , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

If primordial black holes (PBHs) had come to dominate the energy density of the early Universe when oscillations in the axion field began, we show that the relic abundance and expected mass range of the QCD axion would be greatly modified.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Kratika Mazde , Luca Visinelli

We point out that a simple redefinition of the regularizing parameter in regular black hole (RBH) metrics can preserve the self-similarity of the evaporation process. This implies that a RBH can evaporate completely, mirroring the behavior…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-22 Ngo Phuc Duc Loc

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

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe that can contribute to dark matter (DM) abundance have been linked to gravitational wave observations. Super-massive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies are expected to modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Volodymyr Takhistov

The mass ranges allowed for Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) to constitute all of Dark Matter (DM) are broadly constrained. However, these constraints rely on the standard semiclassical approximation which assumes that the evaporation process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-23 Ana Alexandre , Gia Dvali , Emmanouil Koutsangelas