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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

Recent gamma-ray and cosmic-ray observations have put strong constraints on the amount of primordial black holes (PBHs) in our universe. In this article, we use the archival radio data of the inner Galactic Centre to constrain the PBH to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-18 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

Primordial black holes (PBHs) as part of the Dark Matter (DM) would modify the evolution of large-scale structures and the thermal history of the universe. Future 21 cm forest observations, sensitive to small scales and the thermal state of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Kiyotomo Ichiki

Strong lensing of Fast Radio Bursts (FBRs) has been proposed as a relatively clean probe of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter. Recently, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) published a first catalog of 536 FRBs,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Keren Krochek , Ely D. Kovetz

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) with a mass $M \lesssim {10^{17}}$g are expected to inject sub-GeV electrons and positrons in the Galaxy via Hawking radiation. These cosmic rays are shielded by the solar magnetic field for Earth-bound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-06 Mathieu Boudaud , Marco Cirelli

We investigate the constraint on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) and the spectral index $n$ of primeval density perturbations given by the ionizing photon background at the epoch of reionization. Within the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping He , Li-Zhi Fang

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are compelling candidates for explaining the present-day relic abundance of cold dark matter (CDM), yet their formation typically requires finely tuned early-universe dynamics. In this work, we propose a novel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Subhasis Maiti , Debaprasad Maity

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are theoretical black holes which may be formed during the radiation dominant era and, basically, caused by the gravitational collapse of radiational overdensities. It has been well known that in the context of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the asteroid-mass range $(10^{-17}$--$10^{-12})~M_{\odot}$ almost entirely escape constraints as dark matter candidates. In the early universe, however, the Schwarzschild metric is no longer applicable and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 Zachary S. C. Picker

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

The detection of gamma-ray signals from primordial black holes (PBHs) could provide compelling evidence for their role as a dark matter candidate, particularly through the observation of their Hawking radiation. Future gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-07 Kingman Cheung , C. J. Ouseph , Po-Yan Tseng , Sin Kyu Kang

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

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

In this $\textit{Letter}$, we search for the signal of the primordial black holes (PBHs) by correlating the $\gamma$-ray emissions in the MeV energy band produced by the Hawking evaporation and the lensing effect of the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Xiu-Hui Tan , Yang-Jie Yan , Taotao Qiu , Jun-Qing Xia

It has been claimed in Ref.[arXiv:1712.02240] that massive primordial black holes (PBH) cannot constitute all of the dark matter (DM), because their gravitational-lensing imprint on the Hubble diagram of type Ia supernovae (SN) would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Sebastien Clesse , Pierre Fleury

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are very appealing dark matter (DM) candidates. It is highly plausible though, should they exist, that they would not make up all of the DM. Several studies showed that if the rest of DM is made of thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are theorized objects that may make up some - or all - of the dark matter in the universe. At the lowest allowed masses, Hawking radiation (in the form of photons or electrons and positrons) is the primary tool…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-02 Emily Koivu , John Kushan , Makana Silva , Gabriel Vasquez , Arijit Das , Christopher M Hirata

An accurate calculation of their abundance is crucial for numerous aspects of cosmology related to primordial black holes (PBHs). For example, placing constraints on the primordial power spectrum from constraints on the abundance of PBHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-03 Sam Young

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form in the early stages of the Universe via the collapse of large density perturbations. Depending on the formation mechanism, PBHs may exist and populate today the galactic halos and have masses in a wide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-13 Lindita Hamolli , Mimoza Hafizi , Francesco De Paolis , Achille A. Nucita

Primordial black holes (PBHs) remain a viable dark matter candidate in the asteroid-mass range. We point out that in this scenario, the PBH abundance would be large enough for at least one object to cross through the inner Solar System per…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Tung X. Tran , Sarah R. Geller , Benjamin V. Lehmann , David I. Kaiser