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Primordial black holes (PBHs) form from large-amplitude initial density fluctuations and may comprise some or all of the dark matter. If PBHs have a broadly extended mass spectrum, or in mixed PBH-particle dark matter scenarios, the extreme…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 M. Sten Delos , Joseph Silk

It has recently been proposed that massive primordial black holes (PBH) could constitute all of the dark matter, providing a novel scenario of structure formation, with early reionization and a rapid growth of the massive black holes at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-16 Juan García-Bellido , Sebastien Clesse

We propose that the kinematical observations of dwarf galaxies can be used to constrain the primordial black hole's (PBH) abundance in dark matter since the presence of primordial black holes in star clusters will lead to the radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 Bo-Qiang Lu , Yue-Liang Wu

We investigate a possibility of primordial black hole (PBH) formation with a hierarchical mass spectrum in multiple phases of inflation. As an example, we find that one can simultaneously realize a mass spectrum which has recently attracted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Primordial black holes can be produced by a long range attractive fifth force stronger than gravity, mediated by a light scalar field interacting with nonrelativistic "heavy" particles. As soon as the energy fraction of heavy particles…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Luca Amendola , Javier Rubio , Christof Wetterich

Many cosmological phenomena lead to the production of primordial black holes in the early Universe. These phenomena often create a population of black holes with extended mass and spin distributions. As these black holes evaporate via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-10 Andrew Cheek , Lucien Heurtier , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Jessica Turner

We present the analysis on our new limits of the dark matter (DM) halo consisting of primordial black holes (PBHs) or massive compact halo objects (MACHOs). We present a search of the first two years of publicly available Kepler mission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kim Griest , Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Matthew J. Lehner

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed from the collapse of density fluctuations provide a unique window into the physics of the early Universe. Their evaporation through Hawking radiation around the epoch of Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Quan-feng Wu , Xun-Jie Xu

Mounting theoretical evidence suggests that black holes are subjected to the memory burden effect, implying that after certain time the information stored in them suppresses the decay rate. This effect opens up a new window for small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-28 Gia Dvali , Michael Zantedeschi , Sebastian Zell

The origin of observed extremely high energy cosmic rays remains an astrophysical enigma. We show that a single evaporating primordial black hole should produce 8.5*10^14 particles over a 10^20 eV threshold. This emission results from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Aurelien Barrau

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have attracted intensive research interest as a promising candidate of dark matter. However, because of the Hawking radiation, the PBHs lighter than $10^{15}~\rm{g}$ have already evaporated before today. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jin-Rong Du , Zi-Zhuo Zhang , Nan Li

We explore the possibility of explaining dark matter through six-dimensional (6D) primordial black holes (PBHs) in a theory with two extra dimensions. Interestingly, in this scenario the fundamental energy scale is of the order of $\sim 10$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 George K. Leontaris , George Prampromis

In this paper, we examine whether low-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) can be considered a plausible dark matter candidate in galactic halos. We derive the relativistic dynamics of PBHs around the heavy compact objects and evaluate their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 Sohrab Rahvar

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $(30$--$100)~M_{\odot}$ are interesting candidates for dark matter, as they sit in a narrow window between microlensing and cosmic microwave background constraints. There are however tight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 Celine Boehm , Archil Kobakhidze , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Zachary S. C. Picker , Mairi Sakellariadou

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) can form in the early Universe, for instance during radiation domination, from the collapse of large-amplitude density perturbations shortly after horizon re-entry. This mechanism establishes an approximate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ashu Kushwaha , Teruaki Suyama

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) created early in the universe are dark matter candidates. One method of detecting these PBHs is through their Hawking radiation. PBHs created with an initial mass of 5.0 x 10^14 g should be evaporating today…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-23 T. U. Ukwatta , D. Stump , J. T. Linnemann , K. Tollefson , V. Vasileiou , G. Sinnis , J. H. MacGibbon

We demonstrate that primordial black holes (PBHs) lighter than $10^9 \, \text{g}$, which evaporated before the Big Bang nucleosynthesis, can induce significant isocurvature perturbations due to their biased clustering amplitude and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 TaeHun Kim , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Donghui Jeong , Dong-Won Jung , Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee

Primordial black holes in the solar mass range are a possibly significant component of dark matter. We show how an argument relating the deflection of light by such black holes in the density spike likely to exist around the M87…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 J. Silk , L. Stodolsky

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with mass $10^{16}-10^{17}$ g almost escape constraints from observations so could essentially contribute to dark matter density. Hawking evaporation of such PBHs produces with a steady rate $\gamma$- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 K. M. Belotsky , A. A. Kirillov