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Primordial Black Holes (PBH) can form in the early universe and might comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. Interestingly, they are accompanied by the generation of Gravitational Wave (GW) signals and they could contribute to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 G. Franciolini

The possible existence of primordial black holes (PBHs) is an open question in modern cosmology. Among the probes to test it, gravitational waves (GW) coming from their mergers constitute a powerful tool. In this work, we study how stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sarah Libanore , Michele Liguori , Alvise Raccanelli

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with log-normal mass spectrum with masses up to $\sim 10^4-10^5 M_\odot$ can be created after QCD phase transition in the early Universe at $z\sim 10^{12}$ by the modified Affleck-Dine baryogenesis. Using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Konstantin Postnov , Ilya Chekh

We review numerous arguments for primordial black holes (PBHs) based on observational evidence from a variety of lensing, dynamical, accretion and gravitational-wave effects. This represents a shift from the usual emphasis on PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Bernard Carr , Sebastien Clesse , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Michael Hawkins , Florian Kuhnel

Primordial black holes (PBHs) might be formed in the early Universe and could comprise at least a fraction of the dark matter. Using the recently released GWTC-2 dataset from the third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Kaze W. K. Wong , Gabriele Franciolini , Valerio De Luca , Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti , Paolo Pani , Antonio Riotto

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form as a result of primordial scalar perturbations at small scales. This PBH formation scenario has associated gravitational wave (GW) signatures from second-order GWs induced by the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 Jonathan Kozaczuk , Tongyan Lin , Ethan Villarama

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could account for all or part of dark matter, as well as for some LIGO events. We discuss the spins of primordial black holes produced in different cosmological scenarios, with the emphasis on recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-06 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko

The black hole binary properties inferred from the LIGO gravitational wave signal GW150914 posed several serious problems. The high masses and low effective spin of black hole binary can be explained if they are primordial (PBH) rather than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-30 S. Blinnikov , A. Dolgov , N. K. Porayko , K. Postnov

We briefly discuss a possible cosmological implication of the observed binary black hole mergings detected by LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration (GWTC-3 catalogue) for the primordial black hole (PBH) formation in the early Universe. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Konstantin Postnov , Nikita Mitichkin

It is argued that the bulk of black holes (BH) in the universe are primordial (PBH). This assertion is strongly supported by the recent astronomical observations, which allow to conclude that supermassive BHs with $M= (10^6 - 10^9) M_\odot$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 A. D. Dolgov

The abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $0.1 - 10^3 M_\odot$ can potentially be tested by gravitational wave observations due to the large merger rate of PBH binaries formed in the early universe. To put the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-01 Martti Raidal , Christian Spethmann , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

Primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a compelling interpretation for the binary black holes (BBHs) observed by ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, especially for those BBHs in the theoretical mass gap. In the early Universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yan-Chen Bi , Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

The detection of binary black hole coalescences by LIGO/Virgo has aroused the interest in primordial black holes (PBHs), because they could be both the progenitors of these black holes and a compelling candidate of dark matter (DM). PBHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

The Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gradually involved into consideration as the phenomenon having reliable basis. We discuss here the possibility of their agglomeration into clusters that may have several prominent observable features.…

In the recent years, primordial black holes (PBHs) have emerged as one of the most interesting and hotly debated topics in cosmology. Among other possibilities, PBHs could explain both some of the signals from binary black hole mergers…

Primordial black holes created in the early Universe can constitute a substantial fraction of dark matter and serve as seeds for early galaxy formation. Binary primordial black holes with masses of the order of a few dozen solar masses can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-08 Konstantin Postnov , Alexander Dolgov , Nikita Mitichkin , Ivan Simkin

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

Recent astronomical data on Black hole observations are reviewed. The arguments in favor that the observed black holes are predominantly primordial (PBH) are presented. The mass spectrum of PBH is best fit to the log-normal one. A model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 A. D. Dolgov

We propose a new scenario for the evolution of a binary of primordial black holes (PBHs). We consider a dynamical friction by ambient dark matter, scattering of dark matter particles with a highly eccentric orbit besides the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kimitake Hayasaki , Keitaro Takahashi , Yuuiti Sendouda , Shigehiro Nagataki

Primordial black hole (PBH) is a fascinating candidate for the origin of binary merger events observed by LIGO-Virgo collaboration. The spatial distribution of PBHs at formation is an important feature to estimate the merger rate. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kai Murai , Hiromasa Nakatsuka
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