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For primordial black holes (PBHs) to form a considerable fraction of cold dark matter, the required amplitude of primordial scalar perturbations is quite large ($P_{\zeta}(k) \sim 10^{-2}$) if PBH is formed in radiation epoch. In alternate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sukannya Bhattacharya , Subhendra Mohanty , Priyank Parashari

The abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $0.1 - 10^3 M_\odot$ can potentially be tested by gravitational wave observations due to the large merger rate of PBH binaries formed in the early universe. To put the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-01 Martti Raidal , Christian Spethmann , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

We present a novel model-independent generic mechanism for primordial black hole formation within the context of non-singular matter bouncing cosmology. In particular, considering a short duration transition from the matter contracting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Shreya Banerjee , Yi-Fu Cai , Salvatore Capozziello , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The Reheating process at the end of inflation is often modeled by an oscillating scalar field which shows a background dust-like behaviour, prompting the analysis of gravitational collapse and black hole formation in this era to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Luis E. Padilla , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Karim A. Malik

We perform (3+1)-dimensional simulations of primordial black hole (PBH) formation starting from the spheroidal super-horizon perturbations. We investigate how the ellipticity (prolateness or oblateness) affects the threshold of PBH…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Chul-Moon Yoo , Tomohiro Harada , Hirotada Okawa

Large curvature perturbations generated during slow first-order phase transitions are a promising source of primordial black holes. However, recent analyses suggested that the mechanism is ruled out once the density contrast and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-22 Wen-Yuan Ai , Ke-Pan Xie

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe, for instance during radiation domination, from the collapse of large-amplitude density perturbations shortly after horizon re-entry. This mechanism establishes an approximate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ashu Kushwaha , Teruaki Suyama

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe have been connected with the nature of dark matter and can significantly affect cosmological history. We show that coincidence dark radiation and density fluctuation gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Guillem Domènech , Volodymyr Takhistov , Misao Sasaki

After the end of inflation, the inflaton field oscillates around a local minimum of its potential and decays into ordinary matter. These oscillations trigger a resonant instability for cosmological perturbations with wavelengths that exit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jerome Martin , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Vincent Vennin

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could provide the dark matter in various mass windows below $10^2 M_{\odot}$ and those of $30 M_{\odot}$ might explain the LIGO events. PBHs much larger than this might have important consequences even if they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 Bernard Carr , Joseph Silk

We show that the merger of oscillons results in a broad spectrum of the oscillon mass. A huge number of oscillon samples obtained from numerical lattice simulations reveal that the oscillon mass distribution has an exponential tail in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Kentaro Kasai , Naoya Kitajima

In this work, we explore the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) within the context of $\alpha$-attractor inflationary models, focusing on the preheating phase following inflation. During this phase, self-resonance instabilities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Daniel del-Corral , Paolo Gondolo , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

We propose a mechanism that forms primordial black holes (PBHs) via a first-order electroweak phase transition (FOEWPT). The FOEWPT is realized by extending the Standard Model with a real singlet scalar, while the PBH formation is achieved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Peisi Huang , Ke-Pan Xie

Recently, it has been shown that the primordial black holes (PBHs) produced by near critical collapse in the expanding universe have a scaling mass relation similar to that of black holes produced in asymptotically flat spacetime. Distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hee Il Kim

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe evaporate via Hawking radiation and constitute a generic source of stochastic gravitational waves. Existing studies of gravitational wave production from evaporating PBHs typically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-18 Arnab Chaudhuri , Kousik Loho

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) arise naturally from high peaks in the curvature power spectrum of near-inflection-point single-field inflation, and could constitute today the dominant component of the dark matter in the universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Ester Ruiz Morales

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) can form in the radiation dominated early Universe from the collapse of large density perturbations produced by inflation. A power-law parameterisation of the primordial power spectrum is often used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Anne M. Green

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) can form in the early universe and might comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. Interestingly, they are accompanied by the generation of Gravitational Wave (GW) signals and they could contribute to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 G. Franciolini

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with log-normal mass spectrum with masses up to $\sim 10^4-10^5 M_\odot$ can be created after QCD phase transition in the early Universe at $z\sim 10^{12}$ by the modified Affleck-Dine baryogenesis. Using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Konstantin Postnov , Ilya Chekh

We consider the process of primordial black hole (PBH) formation originated from primordial curvature perturbations produced during waterfall transition (with tachyonic instability), at the end of hybrid inflation. It is known that in such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-08 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai