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Primordial black holes (PBHs) could provide the dark matter in various mass windows below $10^2 M_{\odot}$ and those of $30 M_{\odot}$ might explain the LIGO events. PBHs much larger than this might have important consequences even if they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 Bernard Carr , Joseph Silk

Dark matter could comprise, at least in part, primordial black holes (PBH). To test this hypothesis, we present an approach to constrain the PBH mass ($M_{\rm{PBH}}$) and mass fraction ($f_{\rm{PBH}}$) from the flux ratios of quadruply…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-12 Veronica Dike , Daniel Gilman , Tommaso Treu

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have been proposed to explain at least a portion of dark matter. Observations have put strong constraints on PBHs in terms of the fraction of dark matter which they can represent, $f_{\rm PBH}$, across a wide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Jie-Shuang Wang , Antonio Herrera-Martín , Yi-Ming Hu

The nonbaryonic dark matter of the Universe is assumed to consist of new stable forms of matter. Their stability reflects symmetry of micro world and mechanisms of its symmetry breaking. Particle candidates for cosmological dark matter are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-12 Maxim Yu. Khlopov

We study the formation of asteroid-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. We show that the presence of heavy particles predicted in the Minimal Supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Andrea Boccia , Marco Chianese

Current cosmological constraints allow primordial black holes (PBHs) to constitute dark matter in the mass range of $10^{18}$-$10^{22}$g. We show that a major portion of this logarithmic window can be ruled-out based on the Solar System…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-10 Abraham Loeb

Primordial black holes (PBHs) constitute a compelling dark matter candidate whose gravitational effects could significantly influence early cosmic structure formation. We investigate the impact of PBHs on Population III star formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Julia Monika Koulen , Stefano Profumo , Nolan Smyth

We compute the relic abundance of dark matter in the presence of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) beyond the semiclassical approximation. We take into account the quantum corrections due to the memory burden effect, which is assumed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-01 Md Riajul Haque , Suvashis Maity , Debaprasad Maity , Yann Mambrini

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a potential dark matter candidate whose masses can span over many orders of magnitude. If they have masses in the $10^{15}-10^{17}$ g range, they can emit sizeable fluxes of MeV neutrinos through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 Valentina De Romeri , Pablo Martínez-Miravé , Mariam Tórtola

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

The probability that the primordial black hole (PBH) binaries formed in the early Universe can be affected by the Hubble expansion of background, which is non-negligible when the number density of PBHs is very low (it is actually this case…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Hai-Long Huang , Jun-Qian Jiang , Yun-Song Piao

We propose a novel mechanism where Primordial Black Hole (PBH) dark matter is formed much later in the history of the universe between the epoch of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photon decoupling. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-24 Amlan Chakraborty , Prolay K Chanda , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Subinoy Das

We want to explain non-observation of electromagnetic counterpart of currently confirmed ten gravitational wave signals from the black hole mergers assuming their existence in the hidden mirror universe. Mirror matter, which interacts with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-18 Revaz Beradze , Merab Gogberashvili

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could be formed if large perturbations are generated on small scales in inflation. We study a toy inflation model with a local minimum. The curvature perturbations are enhanced when the inflaton passes through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Bao-Min Gu , Fu-Wen Shu , Ke Yang , Yu-Peng Zhang

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) could dominate in the early universe and, evaporating before Big bang Nucleosynthesis, can provide new freeze in mechanism of dark matter (DM) production. The proposed scenario is considered for two possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Pratik Chattopadhyay , Arnab Chaudhuri , Maxim Yu. Khlopov

Mirror matter is a self-collisional dark matter candidate. If exact mirror parity is a conserved symmetry of the nature, there could exist a parallel hidden (mirror) sector of the Universe which has the same kind of particles and the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-16 P. Ciarcelluti

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are the plausible candidates for the cosmological dark matter. Theoretically, PBHs with masses $M_{\rm PBH}$ in the range of $4\times10^{14}\sim 10^{17}\,{\rm g}$ can emit sub-GeV electrons and positrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 Bing-Yu Su , Xu Pan , Guan-Sen Wang , Lei Zu , Yupeng Yang , Lei Feng

Recent studies of merging black holes suggest that the cosmological mass fraction of primordial black holes (PBHs) is not completely negligible. The mass of a PBH can be as massive as an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH). In this article,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-12 Man Ho Chan

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

It has been proposed that primordial black holes (PBHs) form binaries in the radiation dominated era. Once formed, some fraction of them may merge within the age of the Universe by gravitational radiation reaction. We investigate the merger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-13 Bence Kocsis , Teruaki Suyama , Takahiro Tanaka , Shuichiro Yokoyama