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Primordial black holes (PBHs) with a mass from $10^{-16}$ to $10^{-11}\,M_\odot$ may comprise 100% of dark matter. Due to a combination of wave and finite source size effects, the traditional microlensing of stars does not probe this mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 Yang Bai , Nicholas Orlofsky

Primordial black holes (PBHs) hidden in the incredible bulk of the dark dimension could escape constraints from non-observation of their Hawking radiation. Since these five-dimensional (5D) PBHs are bigger, colder, and longer-lived than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Ignatios Antoniadis , Dieter Lust , Karem Peñaló Castillo

If the Dark Matter consists of primordial black holes (PBHs), we show that gravitational lensing of stars being monitored by NASA's Kepler search for extra-solar planets can cause significant numbers of detectable microlensing events. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Kim Griest , Matthew J. Lehner , Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Bhuvnesh Jain

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are an attractive dark matter candidate, particularly if they can explain the totality of it. At PBH masses below $\sim 10^{17}$g and above $\sim 10^{23}$g this possibility is excluded from the variety of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Peter Tinyakov

Stellar microlensing surveys are a powerful tool for probing dark matter in the form of planetary and stellar mass compact objects (COs), in particular primordial black holes (PBHs). Under standard assumptions, current observations exclude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-24 Anne M. Green

Within the mass range of $10^{16}-5\times 10^{18}$ g, primordial black holes (PBHs) persist as plausible candidates for dark matter. Our study involves a reassessment of the constraints on PBHs through a comparative analysis of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Xiu-hui Tan , Jun-qing Xia

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a major candidate for dark matter and they have been extensively constrained across most mass ranges. However, PBHs in the mass range of $10^{17}$ - $10^{21}$ g remain a viable explanation for all dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Chen Yang , Jun-Da Pan , Xin Zhang

Primordial black holes (PBHs), originating from the gravitational collapse of large overdensities in the early Universe, emerge as a compelling dark matter (DM) candidate across a broad mass range. Of particular interest are ultra-light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Jun Guo , Qiang Yuan , Bin Zhu

Recent observations of gravitational waves motivate investigations for the existence of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs). We propose the observation of gravitational microlensing of distant quasars for the range of infrared to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 T. Naderi , A. Mehrabi , S. Rahvar

Ultra-light primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range of 10$^{16}$ - 10$^{22}$ g are allowed by current observations to constitute a significant fraction, if not all, of the dark matter in the Universe. In this work, we present limits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-26 Denys Malyshev , Emmanuel Moulin , Andrea Santangelo

In this proceeding we consider primordial black holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate. We discuss the existing limits on the fraction $f_{pbh}$ of the dark matter constituting of PBHs as a function of PBHs mass. The discussed limits cover…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-13 Denys Malyshev , Emmanuel Moulin , Andrea Santangelo

The primordial black hole (PBH) comprising full dark matter (DM) abundance is currently allowed if its mass lies between $10^{-16}M_{\odot} \lesssim M \lesssim 10^{-11} M_{\odot}$. This lightest mass range is hard to be probed by ongoing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Sunghoon Jung , TaeHun Kim

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) remain a Dark Matter (DM) candidate of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Previously, we proposed a new method of constraining the remaining PBH DM mass range using microlensing of stars monitored by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Kim Griest

Primordial black holes (PBHs), hypothesized to be the result of density fluctuations during the early universe, are candidates for dark matter. When microlensing background stars, they cause a transient apparent enhancement of the flux.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Konstantin Pfrang , Tarek Hassan , Elisa Pueschel

Gravitational lensing of short astrophysical transients provides a uniquely direct avenue for searching for primordial black holes (PBHs) across a vast range of masses. While past search efforts have focused on particular source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Stefano Profumo

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are dark matter candidates that span broad mass ranges from $10^{-17}$ $M_\odot$ to $\sim 100$ $M_\odot$. We show that the stochastic gravitational wave background can be a powerful window for the detection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Suvodip Mukherjee , Matthew S. P. Meinema , Joseph Silk

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have long been suggested as a viable candidate for the elusive dark matter (DM). The abundance of such PBHs has been constrained using a number of astrophysical observations, except for a hitherto unexplored…

The gravitational-lensing parallax of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is an intriguing probe of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter in the asteroid-mass window, $2\times 10^{-16}M_{\odot} \lesssim M_{\text{PBH}} \lesssim 5 \times…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-26 Michael A. Fedderke , Sergey Sibiryakov

As the only dark matter candidate that does not invoke a new particle that survives to the present day, primordial black holes (PBHs) have drawn increasing attention recently. Up to now, various observations have strongly constrained most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Xiao Fang , Gabriel Vasquez , Makana Silva , Christopher M. Hirata

We discuss the possibility of detecting the presence of primordial black holes (PBHs), such as those that might account for galactic dark matter, using modification of pulsar timing residuals when PBHs pass within ~1000 AU and impart…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Naoki Seto , Asantha Cooray
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