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Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) might have formed in the early Universe due to the collapse of density fluctuations. PBHs may act as the sources for some of the gravitational waves recently observed. We explored the formation scenarios of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-06 J. L. G. Sobrinho , P. Augusto

We consider the process of primordial black hole (PBH) formation originated from primordial curvature perturbations produced during waterfall transition (with tachyonic instability), at the end of hybrid inflation. It is known that in such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-08 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai

We review the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) for illuminating the dark ages of the cosmological evolution and as dark matter (DM) candidates. We elucidate the role of phase transitions for primordial black hole formation in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Maël Gonin , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , David Blaschke , Günther Hasinger

The idea that primordial black holes (PBHs) can comprise most of the dark matter of the universe has recently reacquired a lot of momentum. Observational constraints, however, rule out this possibility for most of the PBH masses, with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 N. Bartolo , V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , M. Peloso , D. Racco , A. Riotto

We review the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) for illuminating the dark ages of the cosmological evolution and as dark matter candidates. We elucidate the role of phase transitions for primordial black hole formation in the early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-09 M. Gonin , G. Hasinger , D. Blaschke , O. Ivanytskyi , G. Röpke

We present a scenario in which primordial black holes (PBHs) form in a post-inflationary radiation-dominated (RD) phase and then experience significant accretion during a phase of early matter dominated (EMD). We show that PBH masses could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-29 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , James B. Dent , Ngo Phuc Duc Loc , Tao Xu

The reheating of the universe by the evaporation of light primordial black holes (PBHs) can leave a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background in the early Universe. In the monochromatic limit, their simultaneous evaporation produces an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Yann Gouttenoire , Nicholas Leister , Pedro Schwaller

An explicit realistic model featuring a supercooled phase transition, which allows us to explain the background of gravitational waves recently detected by pulsar timing arrays, is constructed. In this model the phase transition corresponds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Alberto Salvio

Recently we have proposed a novel method to probe primordial gravitational waves from upper bounds on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs). When the amplitude of primordial tensor perturbations generated in the early Universe is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-18 Tomohiro Nakama , Teruaki Suyama

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the candidates to explain the gravitational wave (GW) signals observed by the LIGO detectors. Among several phenomena in the early Universe, cosmic inflation is a major example to generate PBHs from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

As potential candidates of dark matter, primordial black holes (PBHs) are within the core scopes of various astronomical observations. In light of the explosive development of gravitational wave (GW) and radio astronomy, we thoroughly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-23 Yi-Fu Cai , Chao Chen , Xi Tong , Dong-Gang Wang , Sheng-Feng Yan

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

We discuss the footprint of evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) on stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) induced by scalar perturbations. We consider the case where PBHs once dominated the Universe but eventually evaporated before…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Takahiro Terada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We investigate a possibility of primordial black hole (PBH) formation with a hierarchical mass spectrum in multiple phases of inflation. As an example, we find that one can simultaneously realize a mass spectrum which has recently attracted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

A new mechanism of black hole formation in a first order phase transition is proposed. In vacuum bubble collisions the interaction of bubble walls leads to the formation of nontrivial vacuum configuration. The consequent collapse of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 M. Yu. Khlopov , R. V. Konoplich , S. G. Rubin , A. S. Sakharov

We devise a novel mechanism and for the first time demonstrate that the Higgs model in particle physics can drive the inflation to satisfy the cosmic microwave background observations and simultaneously enhance the curvature perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Zhu Yi , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang , Zong-hong Zhu

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

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in strongly supercooled first-order phase transitions. The mechanism is based on the presence of remnants dominated by the false vacuum that scale slower with the expansion of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Marek Lewicki , Piotr Toczek , Ville Vaskonen

The formation of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter and the generation of scalar induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs) have been studied in the generic no-scale supergravity inflationary models. By adding an exponential term to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-30 Lina Wu , Yungui Gong , Tianjun Li

We investigate a new mechanism to create large curvature perturbations on small scales due to parameter resonance in a single-field inflationary model with a small periodic structure upon the potential. After reentering the horizon, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Jing Liu , Lang Liu , Xing-Yu Yang