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While primordial black holes (PBHs) have long been a benchmark target for microlensing searches, the modern landscape of dark matter models suggests other, distinct, formation channels for compact objects made of dark matter. In the large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Joel Cortez Osuna , Sarah Shandera

Primordial black holes (PBHs) represent a natural candidate for one of the components of the dark matter (DM) in the Universe. In this review, we shall discuss the basics of their formation, abundance and signatures. Some of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-03 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Here, Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) creation from exponential potential has been inquired, through gravitationally raised friction emanated from the nonminimal coupling between gravity and field derivative setup. Setting a two-parted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) in the mass range $\sim 10^{17}- 10^{22}$g are currently unconstrained, and can constitute the full Dark Matter (DM) density of the universe. Motivated by this, in the current work, we aim to relate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Diptimoy Ghosh , Arvind Kumar Mishra

Theories of large extra dimensions (LEDs) such as the Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos & Dvali scenario predict a "true" Planck scale $M_\star$ near the TeV scale, while the observed $M_{pl}$ is due to the geometric effect of compact extra…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-05 Avi Friedlander , Katherine J. Mack , Sarah Schon , Ningqiang Song , Aaron C. Vincent

Small black holes should have formed in the early Universe if the density contrast was high enough. This article aims at giving a - biased and partial - short overview of the latest breakthroughs in this field. It first deals with tentative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Boudoul , A. Barrau

Primordial black holes (PBHs) generated in the early Universe are considered as one of the candidates for dark matter. To produce PBHs with sufficient abundance, the primordial scalar power spectrum needs to be enhanced to the order of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Zhongkai Wang , Shengqing Gao , Yungui Gong , Yue Wang

Primordial black hole (PBH), which can be naturally produced in the early universe, remains a promising dark matter candidate . It can merge with a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the center of a galaxy and generate gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Huai-Ke Guo , Jing Shu , Yue Zhao

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) arise naturally from high peaks in the curvature power spectrum of near-inflection-point single-field inflation, and could constitute today the dominant component of the dark matter in the universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Ester Ruiz Morales

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are thought to have been formed as a result of density fluctuations in the very early Universe. It is suggested that PBHs of mass $\sim 5 \times 10^{14} \mathrm{\ g}$ or less have evaporated through the release…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Sajan Kumar

Gravitational lensing of short astrophysical transients provides a uniquely direct avenue for searching for primordial black holes (PBHs) across a vast range of masses. While past search efforts have focused on particular source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Stefano Profumo

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed during first-order phase transitions provide a powerful link between the early-universe microphysics and observable signatures today, including dark matter and gravitational waves. In this work we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Mudit Rai

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) have entered the forefront of theoretical cosmology, due their potential role in phenomena ranging from gravitational waves, to dark matter, to galaxy formation. While producing PBHs from inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Keisuke Inomata , Evan McDonough , Wayne Hu

Next-generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to observe millions of binary black hole mergers, a fraction of which will be strongly lensed by intervening galaxies or clusters, producing multiple images with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Huan Zhou , Bin Liu , Zheng-Xiang Li , Xi-Jing Wang , Kai Liao

Recent gravitational wave (GW) observations of binary black hole (BH) mergers and the stochastic GW background have triggered renewed interest in primordial black holes (PBHs) in the stellar-mass ($\sim 10 - 100\ \rm M_\odot$) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-24 Boyuan Liu , Volker Bromm

It has normally been assumed that primordial black holes (PBHs) always form with mass approximately equal to the mass contained within the horizon at that time. Recent work studying the application of critical phenomena in gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Anne M Green , Andrew R Liddle

The mass ranges allowed for Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) to constitute all of Dark Matter (DM) are broadly constrained. However, these constraints rely on the standard semiclassical approximation which assumes that the evaporation process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-23 Ana Alexandre , Gia Dvali , Emmanouil Koutsangelas

Gravitationally lensed quasars have served as a powerful tool for studying the composition of dark matter (DM) in lensing galaxies. In this work, we propose a novel method to investigate stellar-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) by using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Mingqi Sun , Kai Liao

As the only dark matter candidate that does not invoke a new particle that survives to the present day, primordial black holes (PBHs) have drawn increasing attention recently. Up to now, various observations have strongly constrained most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Xiao Fang , Gabriel Vasquez , Makana Silva , Christopher M. Hirata

Recently, Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) observations found 12 candidates for microlensing events. These events can be explained by primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses of $10^{-7}$-$10^{-6} M_\odot$ and a fraction of all dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Kentaro Kasai , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kai Murai , Shunsuke Neda