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Massive black holes (MBHs) exist in the Galactic center (GC) and other nearby galactic nuclei. As natural outcome of galaxy mergers, some MBHs may have a black hole (BH) companion. In this paper, assuming that the MBHs in the GC and some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-22 Xiao Guo , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu

The production of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter (DM) and the generation of scalar induced secondary gravitational waves by using the enhancement mechanism with a peak function in the non-canonical kinetic term in natural inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Zhu Yi

This Letter explores the potential role of primordial black holes (PBHs) to address cosmological tensions as the presence of more massive than expected galaxies at high redshifts, as indicated by recent James Webb Space Telescope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 P. E. Colazo , F. Stasyszyn , N. Padilla

We revisit the constraints on primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $10^{13}-10^{18}$ g by comparing the 100\,keV-5\,GeV gamma-ray background with isotropic flux from PBH Hawking radiation (HR). We investigate three effects that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 Siyu Chen , Hong-Hao Zhang , Guangbo Long

Primordial black holes (PBH) can form in the early Universe from peaks of the primordial curvature perturbations. The statistics of the peaks determines the abundance of PBHs, and is related to the amplitude of the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Alexander Gallego Cadavid , Antonio Enea Romano

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) and stochastic gravitational waves background (SGWB) produced by the supercooled radion phase transition (PT) in warped extra-dimension models solving the gauge hierarchy problem. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-10 Anish Ghoshal , Eugenio Megias , Germano Nardini , Mariano Quiros

We analyze PBH populations using state-of-the-art modeling of PBH binaries, deriving the strongest bounds on PBH abundance in the $0.6-100 M_\odot$ range from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4a data and demonstrating sensitivity in the $10^{-4}-10^4…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 M. Andrés-Carcasona , A. J. Iovino , E. Vallejo-Pagès , V. Vaskonen , H. Veermäe , M. Martínez , Ll. M. Mir

Primordial black holes (PBHs) arise from the collapse of density perturbations in the early universe and serve as a dark matter (DM) candidate and a probe of fundamental physics. There remains an unconstrained ``asteroid-mass'' window where…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Alexandra P. Klipfel , Peter Fisher , David I. Kaiser

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) will enable the detection of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs) from a population of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) in the next $\sim 3-7$ years. In addition, PTAs provide a rare opportunity to probe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-12 Xavier Siemens , Jeffrey S. Hazboun , Paul T. Baker , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Dustin Madison , Chiara Mingarelli , Joseph Simon , Tristan Smith

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are theoretical black holes which may be formed during the radiation dominant era and, basically, caused by the gravitational collapse of radiational overdensities. It has been well known that in the context of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We perturbatively study the effect of non-Gaussianities on the mass fraction of primordial black holes (PBHs) at the time of formation by systematically taking its effect into account in the one-point probability distribution function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Takahiko Matsubara , Misao Sasaki

We study the possibility that particle production during inflation can source the required power spectrum for dark matter (DM) primordial black holes (PBH) formation. We consider the scalar and the gauge quanta production in inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 Encieh Erfani

Dark matter could comprise, at least in part, primordial black holes (PBH). To test this hypothesis, we present an approach to constrain the PBH mass ($M_{\rm{PBH}}$) and mass fraction ($f_{\rm{PBH}}$) from the flux ratios of quadruply…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-12 Veronica Dike , Daniel Gilman , Tommaso Treu

We discuss the footprint of evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) on stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) induced by scalar perturbations. We consider the case where PBHs once dominated the Universe but eventually evaporated before…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Takahiro Terada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are approaching the sensitivity required to resolve gravitational waves (GWs) from individual supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. However, the large uncertainty in source localization will make the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Niccolo Veronesi , Maria Charisi , Stephen R Taylor , Jessie Runnoe , Daniel J D'Orazio

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can constitute the predominant fraction of dark matter (DM) if PBHs reside in the currently unconstrained "sublunar" mass range. PBHs originating from scalar perturbations generated during inflation can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-28 Sunao Sugiyama , Volodymyr Takhistov , Edoardo Vitagliano , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki , Masahiro Takada

Recently, strong evidence for a gravitational wave background has been reported by collaborations of pulsar timing arrays (PTA). In the framework of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs), we concurrently investigate the second and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Sai Wang , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Qing-Hua Zhu

This paper explores the impact of primordial black holes (PBHs) on the abundance of low-mass haloes and subhaloes in the dark and low-stellar-mass regime, and examines how these effects can be measured through fluctuations in strong lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Patricio Colazo , Nelson Padilla , Federico Stasyszyn

Recently, pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations announced evidence for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. The origin of the PTA signal can be astrophysical or cosmological. In the latter case, the so-called…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Mohammad Ali Gorji , Misao Sasaki , Teruaki Suyama