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Massive Primordial Black Holes (MPBH) can be formed after inflation due to broad peaks in the primordial curvature power spectrum that collapse gravitationally during the radiation era, to form clusters of black holes that merge and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Juan García-Bellido

We investigate the generation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) with the aid of gravitationally increased friction mechanism originated from the NonMinimal field Derivative Coupling (NMDC) to gravity framework, with the quartic potential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a compelling dark matter candidate and a unique probe of small-scale cosmological fluctuations. Their formation is usually attributed to large positive curvature perturbations, which collapse upon Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Cristian Joana , Zi-Yan Yuwen

Most stellar evolution models predict that black holes (BHs) should not exist above approximately $50-70$ M$_\odot$, the lower limit of the pair-instability mass gap. However, recent LIGO/Virgo detections indicate the existence of BHs with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-07 Sanaea C. Rose , Smadar Naoz , Re'em Sari , Itai Linial

Primordial black holes (PBHs), theorized to have originated in the early universe, are speculated to be a viable form of dark matter. If they exist, they should be detectable through photometric and astrometric signals resulting from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-10 K. Pruett , W. Dawson , M. S. Medford , C. Lam , J. R. Lu , S. Perkins , P. McGill , N. Golovich , G. Chapline

Recent studies of merging black holes suggest that the cosmological mass fraction of primordial black holes (PBHs) is not completely negligible. The mass of a PBH can be as massive as an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH). In this article,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-12 Man Ho Chan

We review the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) for illuminating the dark ages of the cosmological evolution and as dark matter candidates. We elucidate the role of phase transitions for primordial black hole formation in the early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-09 M. Gonin , G. Hasinger , D. Blaschke , O. Ivanytskyi , G. Röpke

The recent observations of the gravitational waves (GWs) by LIGO-Virgo collaboration infer the increasing possibility of the primordial black holes (PBHs). Recently it was pointed out that sufficient PBHs are produced by the Affleck-Dine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fuminori Hasegawa , Masahiro Kawasaki

Although the dark matter is usually assumed to be some form of elementary particle, primordial black holes (PBHs) could also provide some of it. However, various constraints restrict the possible mass windows to $10^{16}$ - $10^{17}\,$g,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are hypothetical objects formed at the early epoch of the universe, which could be a type of dark matter (DM) candidate without the need for new particles. The abundance of PBH DM has been constrained strictly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Tian-Ci Liu , Xiao-Song Hu , Yun-Feng Liang , Ben-Yang Zhu , Xing-Fu Zhang , En-Wei Liang

General expressions are given for the generation of Primordial Black Holes (PBH) in a universe with a presently accelerated expansion due to a(n effective) cosmological constant. We give expressions both for a powerlaw scalefree primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Polarski

Primordial black holes (PBHs) has been considered to form a part of dark matter for a long time but the possibility has been poorly constrained over a wide mass range, including the stellar mass range ($1-100~M_{\odot}$). However, due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Huan Zhou , Zhengxiang Li , Zhiqi Huang , He Gao , Lu 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

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) with a mass between $10^{2}$ and $10^{5}$ times that of the sun, which bridges the {mass gap between the} stellar-mass black holes and the supermassive black holes, are crucial in understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-05 Yun-Feng Liang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Hao Wang , Xiang Li , Yi-Ming Hu , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yi-Zhong Fan , En-Wei Liang , Da-Ming Wei

A galaxy halo may contain a large number of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) with masses in the range of 10^{2-6} solar mass. We propose to directly detect these IMBHs by observing multiply imaged QSO-galaxy or galaxy-galaxy strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-08 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Valery Rashkov , Joseph Silk , Piero Madau

We study primordial black hole (PBH) formation in a minimally coupled $f(T)$ teleparallel cosmology that generates a transient departure from standard radiation domination. The model is constructed so that modified-gravity effects are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Spyros Basilakos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Cosmic voids are known as underdense substructures of the cosmic web that cover a large volume of the Universe. It is known that cosmic voids contain a small number of dark matter halos, so the existence of primordial black holes (PBHs) in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Saeed Fakhry , Seyed Sajad Tabasi , Javad T. Firouzjaee

Primordial black holes (PBH) may constitute a considerable fraction of dark matter. In this work we use the recent observations by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaborations to set direct limits on stellar-mass range PBHs. We evaluate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Mehdi El Bouhaddouti , Muhsin Aljaf , Ilias Cholis

We study the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition due to the effects of one-loop radiative corrections of Yukawa couplings between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Adeela Afzal , Anish Ghoshal

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