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The vast datasets associated with extrasolar systems promise to offer sensitive probes of new physics in the near future. We consider the possibility that such systems may capture primordial black holes (PBHs) or other exotic compact…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Benjamin V. Lehmann , Ava Webber , Olivia G. Ross , Stefano Profumo

Black holes formed in the early universe, prior to the formation of stars, can exist as dark matter and also contribute to the black hole merger events observed in gravitational waves. We set a new limit on the abundance of primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-16 Philip Lu , Volodymyr Takhistov , Graciela B. Gelmini , Kohei Hayashi , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Alexander Kusenko

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are hypothetical objects formed at the early epoch of the universe, which could be a type of dark matter (DM) candidate without the need for new particles. The abundance of PBH DM has been constrained strictly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Tian-Ci Liu , Xiao-Song Hu , Yun-Feng Liang , Ben-Yang Zhu , Xing-Fu Zhang , En-Wei Liang

In this work we extend previous work on the evolution of a Primordial Black Hole (PBH) to address the presence of a dark energy component with a super-negative equation of state as a background, investigating the competition between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel C. Guariento , J. E. Horvath , P. S. Custódio , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco

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

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 (PBHs) can form in the early Universe via the collapse of large density perturbations. There are tight constraints on the abundance of PBHs formed due to their gravitational effects and the consequences of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Amandeep S. Josan , Anne M. Green , Karim A. Malik

If primordial black holes (PBHs) of asteroidal mass make up the entire dark matter, they could be detectable through their gravitational influence in the solar system. In this work, we study the perturbations that PBHs induce on the orbits…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Valentin Thoss , Andreas Burkert

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are predicted in many models via different formation mechanisms. Identifying the origin of PBHs is of the same importance as probing their existence. We propose to probe the asteroid-mass PBHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ke-Pan Xie

As the only dark matter candidate that does not invoke a new particle that survives to the present day, primordial black holes (PBHs) have drawn increasing attention recently. Up to now, various observations have strongly constrained most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Xiao Fang , Gabriel Vasquez , Makana Silva , Christopher M. Hirata

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a viable candidate for dark matter if the PBH masses are in the currently unconstrained "sublunar" mass range. We revisit the possibility that PBHs were produced by nucleation of false vacuum bubbles during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki , Sunao Sugiyama , Masahiro Takada , Volodymyr Takhistov , Edoardo Vitagliano

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

It was recently claimed (arXiv:2408.10799) that solar system ephemeris data can exclude primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter in the mass range $10^{18}$-$10^{22}\,$g. We show that this conclusion is based on an implausible, implicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 James M. Cline

Photons emitted by primordial black holes (PBHs) due to the Hawking effect are among the factors of interstellar dust heating. Based on the data on the temperature of dust, constraints on the fraction of $10^{15}\leq M\leq10^{17}$~g.

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe constitute an attractive candidate for dark matter. Within the gaseous environment of the interstellar medium, PBHs with accretion disks naturally launch outflows such as winds and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Volodymyr Takhistov , Philip Lu , Kohta Murase , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Graciela B. Gelmini

We have sifted through astrophysical data collected by various radial velocity and gravitational microlensing searches for exoplanets with the goal of identifying potential signs of the presence of primordial black holes (PBH). Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Paul Halpern , Erik Cauley , Max Stoltzmann , Mauritz Wilshusen

We discuss the possibility of detecting the presence of primordial black holes (PBHs), such as those that might account for galactic dark matter, using modification of pulsar timing residuals when PBHs pass within ~1000 AU and impart…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Naoki Seto , Asantha Cooray

We constrain the mass abundance of unclustered primordial black holes (PBHs), formed with a simple mass distribution and subject to the Hawking evaporation and particle absorption from the environment. Since the radiative flux is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. S. Custódio , J. E. Horvath

Primordial black holes (PBHs) constitute a compelling dark matter candidate whose gravitational effects could significantly influence early cosmic structure formation. We investigate the impact of PBHs on Population III star formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Julia Monika Koulen , Stefano Profumo , Nolan Smyth

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) from the collapse of spherically symmetric domain wall bubbles, which spontaneously nucleate via quantum tunneling during inflation. Since the tension of domain walls changes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai