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We examine the production and evolution of microscopic black holes in the early universe in the large extra dimensions scenario. We demonstrate that, unlike in the standard four-dimensional cosmology, in large extra dimensions absorption of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 John A. Conley , Tommer Wizansky

As was suggested about a year ago, one of the most dramatic consequences of low-scale (~1 TeV) quantum gravity is copious production of mini black holes at future accelerators and in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray collisions. Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Greg Landsberg

The first massive astrophysical black holes likely formed at high redshifts (z>10) at the centers of low mass (~10^6 Msun) dark matter concentrations. These black holes grow by mergers and gas accretion, evolve into the population of bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Zoltan Haiman , Eliot Quataert

If primordial black holes (PBHs) form directly from inhomogeneities in the early Universe, then the number in the mass range $10^5 -10^{12}M_{\odot}$ is severely constrained by upper limits to the $\mu$ distortion in the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Tomohiro Nakama , Bernard Carr , Joseph Silk

Black holes with sufficiently large initial charge and mass will Hawking-evaporate towards the extremal limit. The emission slows as the temperature approaches zero, but still reaches the point where a single Hawking quantum would make the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-22 Samuel E. Gralla

We study the possibility of production of primordial black holes (PBHs) from bubble collisions during a first-order phase transition. While typical colliding bubbles are small and irrelevant for PBH production, we find that those that can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Tae Hyun Jung , Takemichi Okui

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

Limits on the dark matter fraction of small mass primordial black holes from Hawking radiation are predominantly derived from the assumption of a Schwarzschild black hole evaporating. However, astrophysical black holes are usually much more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Sebastian Schuster , Jessica Santiago , Justin Feng , Matt Visser

The presence of supermassive black holes at redshift z > 6 raises some questions about their formation and growth in the early universe. Due to the construction of new telescopes like the ELT to observe and detect SMBHs, it will be useful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 M. Liempi , L. Almonacid , D. R. G. Schleicher , A. Escala

We investigate constraints on the least explored, smallest mass scales of primordial black holes (PBHs), which evaporate prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). Our study examines the impact of Planck-mass relics on the allowed fraction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Amirah Aljazaeri , Christian T. Byrnes

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) offer a compelling candidate for dark matter. The production of PBHs through well-tested and accepted physical processes is highly worthy of investigation. This work highlights the role of turbulences in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 Jia-xiang Liang , Peng Xu , Ming-hui Du , Zi-ren Luo

Evidence shows that massive black holes reside in most local galaxies. Studies have also established a number of relations between the MBH mass and properties of the host galaxy such as bulge mass and velocity dispersion. These results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Marta Volonteri

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe from the collapse of rare, large density fluctuations. They have never been observed, but this fact is enough to constrain the amplitude of fluctuations on very small scales which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-20 Sam Young , Christian T. Byrnes

The 511 keV gamma emission from the galactic core may originate from a high concentration ($\sim 10^{22}$) of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the core each of whose Hawking radiation includes $\sim 10^{21}$ positrons per second. The PBHs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul H. Frampton , Thomas W. Kephart

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

One of the most dramatic consequences of low-scale (~1 TeV) quantum gravity in models with large or warped extra dimension(s) is copious production of mini black holes at future colliders and in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray collisions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Greg Landsberg

Primordial black holes are produced in a minimal UV extension to the Higgs inflation with an included $R^2$ term. We show that for parameters consistent with Standard Model measurements and Planck observation results lead to $M_{\rm PBH}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Dhong Yeon Cheong , Sung Mook Lee , Seong Chan Park

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

Large curvature perturbations generated during slow first-order phase transitions are a promising source of primordial black holes. However, recent analyses suggested that the mechanism is ruled out once the density contrast and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-22 Wen-Yuan Ai , Ke-Pan Xie