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The power spectrum of the scalar-tensor inflation with a quadratic form Ricci scalar coupling function $\Omega(\phi)=1- 2\phi/\phi_c+(1+\delta^2)(\phi/\phi_c)^2$ can be enhanced enough to produce primordial black holes and generate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-23 Zhu Yi

Primordial black holes can be produced by density fluctuations generated from delayed vacuum decays of first-order phase transition. The primordial black holes generated at the electroweak phase transition have masses of about $10^{-5}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-27 Katsuya Hashino , Shinya Kanemura , Tomo Takahashi

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.…

We study the generation of primordial black holes (PBH) in a single field inflection point model of inflation wherein the effective potential is expanded up to the sextic order and the inversion symmetry is imposed such that only even…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-20 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

Recent developments in the study of primordial black holes (PBHs) will be reviewed, with particular emphasis on their formation and evaporation. PBHs could provide a unique probe of the early Universe, gravitational collapse, high energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. J. Carr

We conduct a novel study to obtain the initial spin of the primordial black holes created during a first-order phase transition due to delayed false vacuum decay. Remaining within the parameter space consistent with observational bounds, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Ujjal Kumar Dey

Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model generically predict that in the early universe a scalar condensate can form and fragment into Q-balls before decaying. If the Q-balls dominate the energy density for some period of time, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Eric Cotner , Alexander Kusenko

Primordial black holes (PBH) can form in the early Universe from peaks of the primordial curvature perturbations. The statistics of the peaks determines the abundance of PBHs, and is related to the amplitude of the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Alexander Gallego Cadavid , Antonio Enea Romano

There has recently been renewed interest in the possibility that the dark matter in the universe consists of primordial black holes (PBHs). Current observational constraints leave only a few PBH mass ranges for this possibility. One of them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 N. Bartolo , V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Lewis , M. Peloso , A. Riotto

Here, we investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in non-minimal coupling Gauss-Bonnet inflationary model in the presence of power-law potentials. We employ a two part coupling function to enhance primordial curvatures at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

We investigate the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition in a hybrid inflation model driven by an axion-like particle (ALP) $\phi$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Waqas Ahmed , Anish Ghoshal , Umer Zubair

In this paper, we show that if passive fluctuations are considered, primordial black holes (PBHs) can be easily produced in the framework of single-field, slow-roll inflation models. The formation of PBHs is due to the blue spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Chia-Min Lin , Kin-Wang Ng

Rotating primordial black holes (PBHs) in the early universe can emit particles through superradiance, a process particularly efficient when the particle's Compton wavelength is comparable to the PBH's gravitational radius. Superradiance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Nayun Jia , Shou-Shan Bao , Chen Zhang , Hong Zhang , Xin Zhang

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

The Hawking evaporation of ultra-light primordial black holes (PBH) dominating the early Universe before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis can potentially increase the effective number of extra neutrino species $\Delta N_\mathrm{eff}$ through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Theodoros Papanikolaou

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

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) might have formed in the early Universe as a consequence of the collapse of density fluctuations with an amplitude above a critical value $\delta_{c}$: the formation threshold. Although for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 J. L. G. Sobrinho , P. Augusto , A. L. Gonçalves

Historically the most popular dark matter candidates have been new elementary particles, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and axions. However Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), black holes formed from overdensities in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 Anne M. Green

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses between $10^{14}$ and $10^{20}$ kg are candidates to contribute a substantial fraction of the total dark matter abundance. When in orbit around the center of a star, which can possibly be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Vitorio A. De Lorenci , David I. Kaiser , Patrick Peter , Lucas S. Ruiz , Noah E. Wolfe

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