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The abundance of primordial black holes is currently significantly constrained in a wide range of masses. The weakest limits are established for the small mass objects, where the small intensity of the associated physical phenomenon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Barnacka , J. -F. Glicenstein , R. Moderski

Black holes can be produced in collapse of small-scale dark matter structures, which can happen at any time from the early to present-day universe. Microstructure black holes (MSBHs) can have a wide range of masses. Small MSBHs evaporate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Zachary S. C. Picker , Alexander Kusenko

Primordial black holes formed through the collapse of cosmological density fluctuations have been hypothesised as contributors to the dark matter content of the Universe. At the same time, their mergers could contribute to the recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-30 Valeriya Korol , Ilya Mandel , M. Coleman Miller , Ross P. Church , Melvyn B. Davies

The possible existence of primordial black holes in the stellar mass window has received considerable attention because their mergers may contribute to current and future gravitational-wave detections. Primordial black hole mergers,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Ken K. Y. Ng , Gabriele Franciolini , Emanuele Berti , Paolo Pani , Antonio Riotto , Salvatore Vitale

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes that might have formed in high density regions in the early universe. The presence of local-type non-Gaussianity can lead to large-scale fluctuations in the PBH formation rate. If PBHs make up a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-30 Raphaël van Laak , Sam Young

Sizeable primordial curvature perturbations needed to seed a population of primordial black holes (PBHs) will be accompanied by a scalar-induced gravitational wave signal that can be detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTA). We derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 A. J. Iovino , G. Perna , A. Riotto , H. Veermäe

We revisit the scenario in which stable particles of a dark sector are produced through the complete evaporation of light primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe. We investigate in detail the role of isocurvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 G. Franciolini , D. Racco

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a profound signature of primordial cosmological structures and provide a theoretical tool to study nontrivial physics of the early Universe. The mechanisms of PBH formation are discussed and observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Yu. Khlopov

There are ongoing efforts in detecting Hawking radiation from primordial black holes (PBH) formed during the early universe. Here we put an upper limit on the PBH number density that could have been formed prior to the big bang…

General Physics · Physics 2010-06-29 C. Sivaram , Kenath Arun

Recent studies of gamma-ray, cosmic-ray and radio data put stringent constraints on the fraction of primordial black holes (PBHs) in our universe. In this article, we propose a new indirect method in using the X-ray luminosity data of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Chak Man Lee , Man Ho Chan

Light black holes could have formed in the very early universe through the collapse of large primordial density fluctuations. These primordial black holes (PBHs), if light enough, would have evaporated by now because of the emission of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-11 Jérémy Auffinger , Alexandre Arbey , Pearl Sandick , Barmak Shams Es Haghi , Kuver Sinha

The intermediate mass black hole range, $10\lesssim M_{\rm BH}^{}/M_\odot^{}\lesssim 10^{5} $, has long offered enticing possibilities for primordial black holes (PBH), with populations in this range postulated to be responsible for some of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-31 Philip Lu , Kiyoharu Kawana , Alexander Kusenko

Recent developments in the study of primordial black holes (PBHs) will be reviewed, with particular emphasis on their formation and evaporation. PBHs could provide a unique probe of the early Universe, gravitational collapse, high energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. J. Carr

The production rate of primordial black holes is often calculated by considering a nearly Gaussian distribution of cosmological perturbations, and assuming that black holes will form in regions where the amplitude of such perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Chul-Moon Yoo , Tomohiro Harada , Jaume Garriga , Kazunori Kohri

Within the mass range of $10^{16}-5\times 10^{18}$ g, primordial black holes (PBHs) persist as plausible candidates for dark matter. Our study involves a reassessment of the constraints on PBHs through a comparative analysis of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Xiu-hui Tan , Jun-qing Xia

We use X-ray observations of quasar microlensing (sensitive to smaller compact objects than in the optical) to study the possible presence of a population of low mass black holes (from $\sim$ $10^{-3}M_{\odot}$ to $10^{-1}M_{\odot}$) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-17 A. Esteban-Gutiérrez , E. Mediavilla , J. Jiménez-Vicente , J. A. Muñoz

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

It was suggested by several authors that hypothetical primordial black holes (PBHs) may contribute to the dark matter in our Galaxy. There are strong constraints based on the Hawking evaporation that practically exclude PBHs with masses…

We consider the early Universe scenario which allows for production of non-Gaussian curvature perturbations at small scales. We study the peculiarities of a formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) connected with the non-Gaussianity. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-12 E. V. Bugaev , P. A. Klimai