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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

The accretion of dark matter around the primordial black holes (PBHs) could lead to the formation of surrounding minihalos, whose mass can be several orders of magnitude higher than the central PBH mass. The gravitational microlensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-23 Rong-Gen Cai , Tan Chen , Shao-Jiang Wang , Xing-Yu Yang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may lose mass by Hawking evaporation. For sufficiently small PBHs, they may lose a large portion of their formation mass by today, or evaporate completely if they form with mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-27 Markus R. Mosbech , Zachary S. C. Picker

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the most interesting nonparticle dark matter (DM) candidates. They may explain all the DM content in the Universe in the mass regime from about $10^{-14}M_{\odot}$ to $10^{-11}M_{\odot}$. We study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Kimmo Kainulainen , Sami Nurmi , Enrico D. Schiappacasse , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe can accret dark matter particles due to gravity and form ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs). The theoretical researches and simulations have shown that the density profile of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Yupeng Yang

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) are hypothesised to form during inflation and have long been considered a candidate for compact dark matter. Gravitational microlensing is known as a productive method for exoplanet discovery and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Renee Key , Edward N. Taylor , Ken C. Freeman , Jeremy Mould , Abhijit Saha , Anais Möller , Timothy M. C. Abbott , Alan R. Duffy

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) with a mass $M \lesssim {10^{17}}$g are expected to inject sub-GeV electrons and positrons in the Galaxy via Hawking radiation. These cosmic rays are shielded by the solar magnetic field for Earth-bound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-06 Mathieu Boudaud , Marco Cirelli

It has been suggested that primordial black holes (PBHs) of roughly 30 solar masses could make up the dark matter and if so, might account for the recent detections by LIGO involving binary black holes in this mass range. It has also been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Hiroya Nishikawa , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski , Joseph Silk

The so-called memory-burden effect implies that evaporating Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) inevitably stabilize before complete decay. This stabilization opens a new mass window for PBH Dark Matter below $10^{15}\,$g. The transition to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-18 Alessandro Dondarini , Giulio Marino , Paolo Panci , Michael Zantedeschi

We study how the evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) can affect the production of dark matter (DM) particles through thermal processes. We consider fermionic DM interacting with Standard Model particles via a spin-1 mediator in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 Andrew Cheek , Lucien Heurtier , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Jessica Turner

Formation of significant number of primordial black holes (PBHs) is realized if and only if primordial density fluctuations have a large amplitude, which means that tensor perturbations generated from these scalar perturbations as a second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-06 Ryo Saito , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

As a promising dark matter candidate, primordial black holes (PBHs) lighter than $\sim10^{-18}M_{\odot}$ are supposed to have evaporated by today through Hawking radiation. This scenario is challenged by the memory burden effect, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Yang Jiang , Chen Yuan , Chong-Zhi Li , Qing-Guo Huang

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are hypothetical black holes predicted to have been formed from density fluctuations in the early Universe. PBHs with an initial mass around $10^{14}-10^{15}$g are expected to end their evaporation at present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 H. E. S. S. collaboration , : , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , J. Aschersleben , M. Boettcher , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzo , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , B. Bi , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de Bony de Lavergne , J. Borowska , F. Bradascio , R. Brose , F. Brun , B. Bruno , T. Bulik , C. Burger-Scheidlin , S. Caro , S. Casanova , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , T. Chand , A. Chen , O. Chibueze , G. Cotter , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , A. Djannati-Atai , K. Egberts , C. van Eldik , J. -P. Ernenwein , M. Fussling , A. Fiasson , G. Fichet de Clairfontaine , G. Fontaine , S. Gabici , S. Ghafourizadeh , G. Giavitto , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , G. Grolleron , M. -H. Grondin , L. Haerer , M. Haupt , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , M. Holler , D. Horns , Zhiqiu Huang , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , V. Joshi , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , K. Katarzynski , B. Khelifi , S. Klepser , W. Kluzniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , T. L. Holch , R. G. Lang , S. Le Stum , F. Leitl , A. Lemiere , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , T. Lohse , A. Luashvili , I. Lypova , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , P. Marchegiani , P. Marinos , G. Marti-Devesa , R. Marx , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , E. Moulin , J. Muller , K. Nakashima , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , P. O'Brien , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , G. Puehlhofer , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , G. Peron , A. Priyana Noel , D. A. Prokhorov , H. Prokoph , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , P. Reichherzer , O. Reimer , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , H. Rueda Ricarte , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , H. M. Schutte , U. Schwanke , J. N. S. Shapopi , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , L. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , I. Sushch , H. Suzuki , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , T. Tavernier , C. Thorpe-Morgan , N. Tsuji , Y. Uchiyama , M. Vecchi , J. Veh , C. Venter , J. Vink , S. J. Wagner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , Yu Wun Wong , M. Zacharias , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. Zouari , N. Zywucka

We consider the formation of horizon-size primordial black holes (PBH's) from pre-existing density fluctuations during cosmic phase transitions. It is pointed out that the formation of PBH's should be particularly efficient during the QCD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 K. Jedamzik

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have opened a tantalising new window onto possible black holes as early as redshifts of $z \sim 10.4$. These show a number of puzzling properties including unexpectedly massive black holes in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-04 Pratika Dayal , Roberto maiolino

We study Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) formed by the collapse of rare primordial fluctuations during an early period of Matter Domination. The collapse threshold strongly depends on the shape of the peaks, decreasing as they become flatter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Ehsan Ebrahimian , Ali Akbar Abolhasani , Mehrdad Mirbabayi

We discuss the possibilities for primordial black holes (PBHs) to grow via the accretion of dark matter. In agreement with previous works, we find that accretion during the radiation-dominated era does not lead to a significant mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Katherine J. Mack , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Massimo Ricotti

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a profound signature of primordial cosmological structures and provide a theoretical tool to study nontrivial physics of the early Universe. The mechanisms of PBH formation are discussed and observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Yu. Khlopov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are thought to have been formed as a result of density fluctuations in the very early Universe. It is suggested that PBHs of mass $\sim 5 \times 10^{14} \mathrm{\ g}$ or less have evaporated through the release…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Sajan Kumar

The evaporation of primordial black holes with a mass in the $1\ {\rm gram}\lesssim M_{\rm PBH}\lesssim$1000 kg range can lead to the production of dark matter particles of almost any mass in the range $0.1\ {\rm MeV}\lesssim m_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-06 Logan Morrison , Stefano Profumo , Yan Yu