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The physics of primordial black holes can be affected by the non-Gaussian statistics of the density fluctuations that generate them. Therefore, it is important to have good theoretical control of the higher-order correlation functions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-16 Gianmassimo Tasinato

The rate of gravitational wave bursts from the mergers of massive primordial black holes in clusters is calculated. Such clusters of black holes can be formed through phase transitions in the early Universe. The central black holes in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko , S. G. Rubin

We revisit cosmic microwave background (CMB) constraints on primordial black hole dark matter. Spectral distortion limits from COBE/FIRAS do not impose a relevant constraint. Planck CMB anisotropy power spectra imply that primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-17 Daniel Aloni , Kfir Blum , Raphael Flauger

Primordial black hole (PBH) is a fascinating candidate for the origin of binary merger events observed by LIGO-Virgo collaboration. The spatial distribution of PBHs at formation is an important feature to estimate the merger rate. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kai Murai , Hiromasa Nakatsuka

The local primordial density fluctuations caused by quantum vacuum fluctuations during inflation grow into stars and galaxies in the late universe and, if they are large enough, also produce primordial black holes. We study the formation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Neven Bilić , Dragoljub D. Dimitrijević , Goran S. Djordjevic , Milan Milošević , Marko Stojanović

The abundance of primordial black holes changes in the presence of local non-Gaussianity. A positive non-linear parameter $f_{NL}$ increases the abundance while a negative one reduces it. We show that in non-attractor single-field models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Hassan Firouzjahi , Antonio Riotto

In this paper a simple (i.e. free of fine-tuning, etc.) new mechanism for primordial black hole formation based on the collapse of large antimatter systems in the early Universe is introduced. A peculiarity of this process is that, compared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-15 Gabor Etesi

Up to now several gravitational-wave events from the coalescences of black hole binaries have been reported by LIGO/VIRGO, and imply that black holes should have an extended mass function. We work out the merger rate distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

The final mass distribution of primordial black holes is sensitive to the equation of state of the Universe at the scales accessible by the power spectrum. Motivated by the presence of phase transitions in several beyond the Standard Model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Albert Escrivà , Javier G. Subils

Stellar-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBH) have been recently reconsidered as a Dark Matter (DM) candidate, after the aLIGO discovery of several binary BH mergers with masses of tens of $M_\odot$. Matter accretion on such massive objects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Vivian Poulin , Pasquale D. Serpico , Francesca Calore , Sebastien Clesse , Kazunori Kohri

We perturbatively study the effect of non-Gaussianities on the mass fraction of primordial black holes (PBHs) at the time of formation by systematically taking its effect into account in the one-point probability distribution function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Takahiko Matsubara , Misao Sasaki

We consider the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs), during the radiation-dominated Universe, generated from the collapse of super-horizon curvature fluctuations that are overlapped with others on larger scales. Using a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-26 Albert Escrivà , Chul-Moon Yoo

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) might originate from supermassive primordial black holes (PBHs). However, the hypothesis that these PBHs formed through the enhancement of the primordial curvature perturbations has consistently faced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Zhan-He Wang , Hai-Long Huang , Yun-Song Piao

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

We discuss the possibility of forming primordial black holes during a first-order phase transition in the early Universe. As is well known, such a phase transition proceeds through the formation of true-vacuum bubbles in a Universe that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael J. Baker , Moritz Breitbach , Joachim Kopp , Lukas Mittnacht

If primordial black holes (PBHs) contribute more than 10 percent of the dark matter (DM) density, their energy density today is of the same order as that of the baryons. Such a cosmic coincidence might hint at a mutual origin for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Yi-Peng Wu , Elena Pinetti , Joseph Silk

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are considered viable candidates for dark matter and the seeds of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), with their fruitful physical influences providing significant insights into the conditions of the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-30 Junyue Yang , Xiaoding Wang , Xiao-Han Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Sheng-Feng Yan , Amara Ilyas , Yi-Fu Cai

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 investigate a new mechanism to create large curvature perturbations on small scales due to parameter resonance in a single-field inflationary model with a small periodic structure upon the potential. After reentering the horizon, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Jing Liu , Lang Liu , Xing-Yu Yang

We show that the number of primordial black holes (PBHs) which is originated from primordial density perturbations with moderately-tilted power spectrum fluctuates following the log-normal distribution, while it follows the Poisson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Naoya Kitajima