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Particle dark matter and primordial black holes (PBH) might coexist with appreciable cosmic abundances, with both contributing to the observed dark matter density $\Omega_{\rm DM}$. Large populations of PBH (with $\Omega_{\rm PBH}\sim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Prolay Chanda , Sagnik Mukherjee , James Unwin

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are appealing candidates for dark matter in the universe but are severely constrained by theoretical and observational constraints. We will focus on the Hawking evaporation limits extended to Kerr black holes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 Alexandre Arbey , Jérémy Auffinger , Joseph Silk

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are known as one of the potential candidates for dark matter. They are expected to have formed due to the direct gravitational collapse of density fluctuations in the early Universe. Therefore, the study of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-11 Saeed Fakhry

Hawking evaporation of black holes in the early Universe is expected to copiously produce all kinds of particles, regardless of their charges under the Standard Model gauge group. For this reason, any fundamental particle, known or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 Andrew Cheek , Lucien Heurtier , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Jessica Turner

While Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) with masses $M_{\rm PBH} \gtrsim 10^{-11} \, M_\odot$ cannot comprise the entirety of dark matter, the existence of even a small population of these objects can have profound astrophysical consequences. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Estanis Utrilla Ginés , Samuel J. Witte , Olga Mena

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

By considering adiabatic contraction of the dark matter (DM) during star formation, we estimate the amount of DM trapped in stars at their birth. If the DM consists partly of primordial black holes (PBHs), they will be trapped together with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Fabio Capela , Maxim Pshirkov , Peter Tinyakov

We derive the upper limit on the dark matter (DM) fraction in primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mixed DM scenarios. In this scenarios, a PBH can accrete weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) to form a ultracompact minihalo (UCMH)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Yupeng Yang , Xiujuan Li , Gang Li

Primordial black holes (PBHs), formed out of large overdensities in the early Universe, are a viable dark matter (DM) candidate over a broad range of masses. Ultra-light, asteroid-mass PBHs with masses around $10^{17}$ g are particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 Anupam Ray , Ranjan Laha , Julian B. Muñoz , Regina Caputo

In the mass range of 1e15 g up to 1e26 g, primordial black holes (PBHs) as a possible contribution to the dark matter are still unexplored. In this contribution, we investigate the possibility of an electromagnetic signal from PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-20 Julia K. Becker , Marek A. Abramowicz , Peter L. Biermann

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are an attractive dark matter candidate, particularly if they can explain the totality of it. At PBH masses below $\sim 10^{17}$g and above $\sim 10^{23}$g this possibility is excluded from the variety of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Peter Tinyakov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are expected to accrete particle dark matter around them to form ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs), if the PBHs themselves are not most of the dark matter. We show that if most dark matter is a thermal relic, then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Brian C. Lacki , John F. Beacom

There has recently been renewed interest in the possibility that the dark matter in the universe consists of primordial black holes (PBHs). Current observational constraints leave only a few PBH mass ranges for this possibility. One of them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 N. Bartolo , V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Lewis , M. Peloso , A. Riotto

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe that can contribute to dark matter (DM) abundance have been linked to gravitational wave observations. Super-massive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies are expected to modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Volodymyr Takhistov

Primordial black holes (PBHs), originating from the gravitational collapse of large overdensities in the early Universe, emerge as a compelling dark matter (DM) candidate across a broad mass range. Of particular interest are ultra-light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Jun Guo , Qiang Yuan , Bin Zhu

The primordial black hole (PBH) comprising full dark matter (DM) abundance is currently allowed if its mass lies between $10^{-16}M_{\odot} \lesssim M \lesssim 10^{-11} M_{\odot}$. This lightest mass range is hard to be probed by ongoing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Sunghoon Jung , TaeHun Kim

One of the seemingly strongest constraints on the fraction of dark matter in the form of primordial black holes (PBH) of ${\cal O}$(10)$\,M_\odot$ relies on the merger rate inferred from the binary BH merger events detected by LIGO/Virgo.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Guillermo Ballesteros , Pasquale D. Serpico , Marco Taoso

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are the natural candidate of dark matter (DM) as they only interact gravitationally and can evade any experiments on earth. In the standard semiclassical calculation of Hawking radiation, PBHs with mass below…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Ngo Phuc Duc Loc

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may have formed in the early Universe and may account for all or part of the dark matter. In this review, we summarize the current observational constraints on PBHs across the full mass range, highlight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Bernard Carr , Antonio J. Iovino , Gabriele Perna , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

The evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH) with masses ranging from $\sim 10^{-1}$ to $\sim 10^9$ g could have generated the whole observed dark matter (DM) relic density. It is typically assumed that after being produced, its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Nicolás Bernal , Óscar Zapata