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Primordial black holes (PBHs) can generically form in inflationary setups through the collapse of enhanced cosmological perturbations, providing us access to the early Universe through their associated observational signatures. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Andreas Lymperis , Smaragda Lola , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can catalyze first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) in their vicinity, potentially modifying the gravitational wave (GW) signals from PTs. In this study, we investigate the GWs from strong PTs catalyzed by PBHs.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Jiahang Zhong , Chao Chen , Yi-Fu Cai

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are predicted in many models via different formation mechanisms. Identifying the origin of PBHs is of the same importance as probing their existence. We propose to probe the asteroid-mass PBHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ke-Pan Xie

We discuss the unique phenomenology of first-order phase transitions catalyzed by primordial black holes (BHs). If the number of BHs within one Hubble volume is smaller than unity at the time of bubble nucleation, each bubble catalyzed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-26 Ryusuke Jinno , Jun'ya Kume , Masaki Yamada

Current gravitational-wave observations set the most stringent bounds on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the solar mass range. This constraint, however, inherently relies on the merger rate predicted by PBH models.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-28 Gabriele Franciolini , Konstantinos Kritos , Emanuele Berti , Joseph Silk

Slow first-order phase transitions generate large inhomogeneities that can lead to the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). We show that the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum then consists of a primary component sourced by bubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Marek Lewicki , Piotr Toczek , Ville Vaskonen

Primordial black holes (PBH) have been shown to arise from high peaks in the matter power spectra of multi-field models of inflation. Here we show, with a simple toy model, that it is also possible to generate a peak in the curvature power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Ester Ruiz Morales

The Reheating process at the end of inflation is often modeled by an oscillating scalar field which shows a background dust-like behaviour, prompting the analysis of gravitational collapse and black hole formation in this era to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Luis E. Padilla , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Karim A. Malik

The growing evidence of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers has renewed the interest in study of primordial black holes (PBH). Here we study a mechanism for the formation of PBH from collapse of pseudo-topological domain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Sasmita Mishra , Urjit A. Yajnik

The phenomenology of primordial black hole (PBH) physics and the associated PBH abundance constraints, can be used in order to probe the physics of the early Universe. In this work, we investigate the PBH formation during the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 Shreya Banerjee , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are of fundamental interest in cosmology and astrophysics, and have received much attention as a dark matter candidate and as a potential source of gravitational waves. One possible PBH formation mechanism is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Alexander C. Jenkins , Mairi Sakellariadou

The recent observations of the gravitational waves (GWs) by LIGO-Virgo collaboration infer the increasing possibility of the primordial black holes (PBHs). Recently it was pointed out that sufficient PBHs are produced by the Affleck-Dine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fuminori Hasegawa , Masahiro Kawasaki

In this paper we study the production of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) from inflation in order to explain the Dark Mater (DM) in the Universe. The evaluation of the fractional PBHs abundance to DM is sensitive to the value of the threshold…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Ioanna D. Stamou

We study the effects of velocity dispersion on the formation of primordial black holes~(PBHs) in a matter-dominated era. The velocity dispersion is generated through the nonlinear growth of perturbations and has the potential to impede the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Tomohiro Harada , Kazunori Kohri , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Terada , Chul-Moon Yoo

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) serve as a unique probe to the physics of the early Universe, particularly inflation. In light of this, we study the formation of PBHs by the collapse of overdense perturbations generated during a model of warm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Richa Arya

In this paper, we investigate the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) during the radiation-dominated era. The collapse of significant density perturbations originating from large primordial scalar fluctuations generated during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Brahim Asfour , Farida Bargach , Yahya Ladghami , Ahmed Errahmani , Taoufik Ouali

Formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) on astrophysical mass scales is a natural consequence of inflationary cosmology if the primordial perturbation spectrum has a large and negative running of the spectral index as observationally…

We present a numerical investigation of the gravitational collapse of horizon-size density fluctuations to primordial black holes (PBHs) during the radiation-dominated phase of the Early Universe. The collapse dynamics of three different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. C. Niemeyer , K. Jedamzik

This study investigates the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) resulting from the collapse of adiabatic fluctuations with large amplitudes and non-Gaussianity. Ref. \cite{Uehara:2024yyp} showed that fluctuations with large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Masaaki Shimada , Albert Escrivá , Daiki Saito , Koichiro Uehara , Chul-Moon Yoo

Cosmic necklaces are hybrid topological defects consisting of monopoles and strings. We argue that primordial black holes(PBHs) may have formed from loops of the necklaces, if there exist stable winding states, such as coils and cycloops.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Tomohiro Matsuda