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Theoretical studies on the memory-burden effect suggest that Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) with masses smaller than $10^{15}$ grams may be viable dark matter candidates and, consequently, be potential sources of high-energy particles in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-29 Marco Chianese

The lightest Kaluza-Klein (KK) dark matter particles and primordial black holes (PBHs) emerge as plausible candidates for dark matter. In scenarios where dark matter is a mix of KK particles and PBHs, PBHs can attract surrounding KK dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yupeng Yang , Qianyong Li , Jiali Hao , Xiujuan Li

Sufficiently large scalar perturbations in the early Universe can create over-dense regions that collapse into primordial black holes (PBH). This process is accompanied by the emission of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Junsong Cang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Yu Gao

The E-type $\alpha$-attractor models of single-field inflation were generalized further in order to accommodate production of primordial black holes (PBH) via adding a near-inflection point to the inflaton scalar potential at smaller…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Daniel Frolovsky , Sergei V. Ketov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) remain a viable dark matter candidate in the asteroid-mass range. We point out that in this scenario, the PBH abundance would be large enough for at least one object to cross through the inner Solar System per…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Tung X. Tran , Sarah R. Geller , Benjamin V. Lehmann , David I. Kaiser

Superradiance provides a unique opportunity for investigating dark sectors as well as primordial black holes, which themselves are candidates for dark matter over a wide mass range. Using axion-like particles as an example, we show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Tao Xu

We show that primordial black holes (PBHs) in the $\textit{Stupendously Large Black Hole}$ mass range ($M \gtrsim 10^{11}\,M_\odot$) produce isocurvature perturbations exceeding current $\textit{Planck}$ Cosmic Microwave Background limits,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Christopher Gerlach , Yann Gouttenoire , Antonio J. Iovino , Nicholas Leister

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

Because primordial black holes (PBHs) evaporate into all particle species in nature, PBHs may emit several dark matter (DM) particle species with specific mass spectra. We assume that PBHs are the only source of DMs, and DMs only interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-15 Teruyuki Kitabayashi

If light enough primordial black holes (PBH) account for dark matter, then its density decreases with time as they lose mass via Hawking radiation. We show that this time-dependence of the matter density can be formulated as an equivalent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Savvas Nesseris , Domenico Sapone , Spyros Sypsas

Primordial black holes (PBH) could account for variety of phenomena like dark matter, reionization of the Universe, early quasars, coalescence of black holes registered through gravitational waves recently. Each phenomenon relates to PBH of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 K. M. Belotsky , A. A. Kirillov , N. O. Nazarova , S. G. Rubin

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 recently identified \textit{memory burden} effect has the potential to significantly decelerate the evaporation of black holes. Specifically, when approximately half of a black hole's initial mass has been radiated away, the evaporation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Xiu-hui Tan , Yu-feng Zhou

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) are appealing candidates for dark matter in the universe but are severely constrained by theoretical and observational constraints. We will focus on the Hawking evaporation limits extended to Kerr black holes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 Alexandre Arbey , Jérémy Auffinger , Joseph Silk

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form spike density halos through the accretion of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In these halos, the enhanced density significantly boosts the annihilation rate of WIMPs. For Majorana dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 Shibsankar Si , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Alekha C. Nayak

Primordial black holes (PBH) can efficiently form black hole binaries in the early universe. We update the resulting constraints on PBH abundance using data from the third observational run (O3) of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. To capture a wide range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 M. Andrés-Carcasona , A. J. Iovino , V. Vaskonen , H. Veermäe , M. Martínez , O. Pujolàs , Ll. M. Mir

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

By considering adiabatic contraction of the dark matter (DM) during star formation, we estimate the amount of DM trapped in stars at their birth. If the DM consists partly of primordial black holes (PBHs), they will be trapped together with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-08 Fabio Capela , Maxim Pshirkov , Peter Tinyakov

Soon after the recent first ever detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes it has been suggested that their origin is primordial. Appealingly, a sufficient number of primordial black holes (PBHs) could also partially or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-09 Jakob Stegmann , Pedro R. Capelo , Elisa Bortolas , Lucio Mayer