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The possibility of identifying some of Galactic gamma-ray sources as clusters of primordial black holes is discussed. The known scenarios of supermassive black hole formation indicate the multiple formation of lower-mass black holes. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 K. M. Belotsky , A. V. Berkov , A. A. Kirillov , S. G. Rubin

Asteroid-mass primordial black holes (PBH) can explain the observed dark matter abundance while being consistent with the current indirect detection constraints. These PBH can produce gamma-ray signals from Hawking radiation that are within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Kaustubh Agashe , Jae Hyeok Chang , Steven J. Clark , Bhaskar Dutta , Yuhsin Tsai , Tao Xu

Accreting black holes are believed to be sites of possible particle acceleration with favorable conditions also for effective gamma-ray production. However, because of photon-photon pair production, only low energy (MeV) gamma-rays can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Felix Aharonian , Andrii Neronov

We investigate the impact of neutrino emission via Hawking radiation from primordial black holes (PBHs) on the cosmological effective number of neutrino species, $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$, after neutrino decoupling. By comparing this effect with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Héctor Sanchis , Gabriela Barenboim , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez

Advanced LIGO's discovery of gravitational-wave events is stimulating extensive studies on the origin of binary black holes. Assuming that the gravitational-wave events can be explained by binary primordial black hole mergers, we utilize…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Sai Wang , Yi-Fan Wang , Qing-Guo Huang , Tjonnie G. F. Li

In this work we extend previous work on the evolution of a Primordial Black Hole (PBH) to address the presence of a dark energy component with a super-negative equation of state as a background, investigating the competition between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel C. Guariento , J. E. Horvath , P. S. Custódio , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco

We present a purely gravitational infra-red-calculable production mechanism for dark matter (DM). The source of both the DM relic abundance and the hot Standard Model (SM) plasma is a primordial density of micro black holes (BHs), which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Olivier Lennon , John March-Russell , Rudin Petrossian-Byrne , Hannah Tillim

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are significant sources of axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), provided their Hawking temperature exceeds the particles' masses. Given the predominant decay of axions into photons, the enhanced photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Yongsoo Jho , Tae-Geun Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park , Yeji Park

We study the matter power spectrum constraint on primordial black holes (PBH) by the dark matter (DM) emitted through Hawking radiation. We particularly focus on the scenario where PBH, with mass ranges between 1g and $10^9$g, evaporates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Yu-Ming Chen

The Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH) reheats the Universe locally, forming hot spots that survive throughout their lifetime. We propose to use the temperature profile of such hot spots to calculate the decay rate of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-15 Louis Hamaide , Lucien Heurtier , Shi-Qian Hu , Andrew Cheek

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a compelling candidate for Dark Matter (DM). There remain significant parameter spaces to be explored despite current astrophysical observations have set strong limits. Utilizing advanced MeV observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Zhen Xie , Bing Liu , Jiahao Liu , Yi-Fu Cai , Ruizhi Yang

Primordial Black Hole Remnants(PBHRs) can be considered as a primary source of cold dark matter. Hybrid inflation provides a possible framework for production of primordial black holes(PBHs) and these PBHs evaporate subsequently to produce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 Kourosh Nozari

Any abundance of black holes that was present in the early universe will evolve as matter, making up an increasingly large fraction of the total energy density as space expands. This motivates us to consider scenarios in which the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Dan Hooper , Gordan Krnjaic , John March-Russell , Samuel D. McDermott , Rudin Petrossian-Byrne

A primordial black hole (PBH) is thought to be made of the regular matter or ordinary mass ($M$) only, and hence could have already been decayed due to the Hawking radiation if its initial ordinary mass were $\lesssim 5 \times 10^{11}$ kg.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 Chandrachur Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya

Near extremal Kerr black holes are subject to the Thorne limit $a<a^*_{\rm lim}=0.998$ in the case of thin disc accretion, or some generalized version of this in other disc geometries. However any limit that differs from the thermodynamics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Alexandre Arbey , Jérémy Auffinger , Joseph Silk

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe have been connected with the nature of dark matter and can significantly affect cosmological history. We show that coincidence dark radiation and density fluctuation gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Guillem Domènech , Volodymyr Takhistov , Misao Sasaki

Temporal and energy characteristics of the very-high-energy gamma-ray bursts from evaporating primordial black holes have been calculated by assuming that the photospheric and chromospheric effects are negligible. The technique of searching…

Primordial black holes in the mass range from $10^{-5}$ to $10^9$ g might have existed in the early universe. Via their evaporation mechanism (completed before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis), they might have released stable particles beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-18 Isabella Masina

Possibilities of an experimental search for gamma-ray bursts from primordial black hole (PBH) evaporations in space are reconsidered. It is argued that the corresponding constraints which can be obtained in experiments with cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-11 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai , Valery Petkov

Primordial black holes are black holes that may have formed from density fluctuations in the early universe. It has been theorized that black holes slowly evaporate. If primordial black holes of initial mass of $10^{14}$g were formed, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Simon Archambault