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We in this paper investigate the formation and evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) in nonsingular bouncing cosmologies. We discuss the formation of PBH in the contracting phase and calculate the PBH abundance as a function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-18 Jie-Wen Chen , Junyu Liu , Hao-Lan Xu , Yi-Fu Cai

Primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a unique probe of the early Universe and may have an enhanced abundance in bouncing cosmologies, where a long contracting phase can amplify perturbations. We develop a unified framework to study PBH…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Xuan Ye , Luiz Felipe Demetrio , Eduardo Jose Barroso , Shen-Feng Yan , Nelson Pinto-Neto

Primordial black holes (PBHs) constitute a compelling dark matter candidate whose gravitational effects could significantly influence early cosmic structure formation. We investigate the impact of PBHs on Population III star formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Julia Monika Koulen , Stefano Profumo , Nolan Smyth

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) that form from the collapse of density perturbations are more clustered than the underlying density field. In a previous paper, we showed the constraints that this has on the prospects of PBH dark matter. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 James R. Chisholm

We study primordial black hole (PBH) formation in a minimally coupled $f(T)$ teleparallel cosmology that generates a transient departure from standard radiation domination. The model is constructed so that modified-gravity effects are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Spyros Basilakos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may be part of the dark matter. It is shown here that PBHs form more easily during cosmic phase transitions. For approximately scale-invariant primordial curvature fluctuations the PBH mass function may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Karsten Jedamzik

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

Primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter (DM) nonlinear small-scale structure formation begins before the epoch of recombination due to large Poisson density fluctuations. Those small-scale effects still survive today, distinguishing physics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-25 Gert Hütsi , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

We investigate the impact of massive primordial black holes (PBHs; $m_{\rm BH}\sim 10^6~M_{\odot}$) on the star formation and first galaxy assembly process using high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations from $z = 1100$ to $z \sim 9$. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-27 Saiyang Zhang , Boyuan Liu , Volker Bromm , Junehyoung Jeon , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Florian Kuhnel

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

It has normally been assumed that primordial black holes (PBHs) always form with mass approximately equal to the mass contained within the horizon at that time. Recent work studying the application of critical phenomena in gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Anne M Green , Andrew R Liddle

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) through delayed vacuum decay during slow cosmic first-order phase transitions. Two specific models, the polynomial potential and the real singlet extension of the Standard Model,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Shinya Kanemura , Masanori Tanaka , Ke-Pan Xie

We study the evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early universe in the presence of a surrounding thermal bath. By incorporating the effects of thermal absorption, we show that PBHs can undergo significant mass growth,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Md Riajul Haque , Rajesh Karmakar , Yann Mambrini

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the early Universe during a period of slow reheating after inflation. We demonstrate how the PBH formation mechanism may change even before the end of the matter-dominated phase and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Bernard Carr , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Charlotte Owen , Tommi Tenkanen

We investigate Primoridal Black Hole (PBH) formation by which we mean black holes produced in the early universe during radiation domination. After discussing the range of PBH mass permitted in the original mechanism of Carr and Hawking,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Paul H. Frampton

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 2015-06-24 B. J. Carr

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) have not been experimentally detected so far, but their existence would provide important insights about the early Universe and serve as one of the possible candidates of dark matter (DM). In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Pratibha Jangra , Daniele Gaggero , Bradley J. Kavanagh , J. M. Diego

We perform $3+1$ relativistic numerical simulations to study primordial black hole (PBH) formation from the collapse of adiabatic super-horizon non-spherical perturbations generated from curvature fluctuations obeying random Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Albert Escrivà , Chul-Moon Yoo

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes that might have formed in high density regions in the early universe. The presence of local-type non-Gaussianity can lead to large-scale fluctuations in the PBH formation rate. If PBHs make up a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-30 Raphaël van Laak , Sam Young