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Using the concept of apparent horizon for dynamical black holes, we revisit the formation of primordial black holes (PBH) in the early universe for both linear and non-linear regimes. First, we develop the perturbation theory for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Alireza Allahyari , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Ali Akbar Abolhasani

We investigate the large curvature perturbations which can lead to the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the context of no-scale supergravity. Our study does not depend on any exotic scenario, such as scalar potentials with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 Ioanna D. Stamou

We study a modification of the primordial black hole (PBH) formation model from axion bubbles. We assume that the Peccei-Quinn scalar rolls down in the radial direction from a large field value to the potential minimum during inflation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Kentaro Kasai , Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Kai Murai , Shunsuke Neda , Fuminobu Takahashi

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the candidates to explain the gravitational wave (GW) signals observed by the LIGO detectors. Among several phenomena in the early Universe, cosmic inflation is a major example to generate PBHs from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We numerically study the primordial black hole (PBH) formation by an isocurvature perturbation of a massless scalar field on super Hubble scales in the radiation-dominated universe. As a first step we perform simulations of spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Chul-Moon Yoo , Tomohiro Harada , Shin'ichi Hirano , Hirotada Okawa , Misao Sasaki

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

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

We consider a mechanism for producing a significant population of primordial black holes (PBHs) and an observable stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) within string theory inspired models of inflation. In this framework where…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ogan Özsoy , Zygmunt Lalak

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) forming prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis evolve during the reheating epoch, an environment dominated by an oscillating inflaton field decaying into a relativistic thermal bath. In this work, we track the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jitumani Kalita , Debaprasad Maity

A class of inflationary scenarios for primordial black hole (PBH) formation include a small barrier in the slope of the potential. There, the inflaton slows down, generating an enhancement of primordial perturbations. Moreover, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Albert Escrivà , Vicente Atal , Jaume Garriga

In this work, we explore primordial black holes (PBH) formation scenario during the post-inflationary preheating stage dominated by the inflaton field. We consider, in particular, a model-independent parametrization of the Gaussian peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Daniel del-Corral , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

In the context of transient constant-roll inflation near a local maximum, we derive the non-perturbative field redefinition that relates a Gaussian random field with the true non-Gaussian curvature perturbation. Our analysis shows the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Vicente Atal , Jaume Garriga , Airam Marcos-Caballero

We study the formation of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter and the generation of scalar induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs) in a non-supersymmetric model of hybrid inflation with chaotic (polynomial-like) potential,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-27 Waqas Ahmed , M. Junaid , Umer Zubair

Ultralight primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a compelling window into early-Universe cosmology. Following our earlier work, we explore a mechanism for the formation of ultralight PBHs sourced by primordial inflationary magnetic fields,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Subhasis Maiti , Debaprasad Maity

In this paper, we propose a model in which a spectator field non-minimally couples to an inflaton field and the power spectrum of the perturbation of the spectator field at small scales is dramatically enhanced by the sharp feature in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 De-Shuang Meng , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

Recent observational constraints indicate that primordial black holes (PBHs) with the mass scale $\sim 10^{-12}M_{\odot}$ can explain most of dark matter in the Universe. To produce this kind of PBHs, we need an enhance in the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

This paper is a biased review of primordial black hole (PBH) formation and abundance estimation. We first review the three-zone model for PBH formation to help an intuitive understanding of the PBH formation process. Then, for more accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Chul-Moon Yoo

We propose a novel scenario to produce abundant primordial black holes (PBHs) in new inflation which is a second phase of a double inflation in the supergravity frame work. In our model, some preinflation phase before the new inflation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-04 Masahiro Kawasaki , Alexander Kusenko , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We examine the possibility of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) formation in single-field models of inflation. Using the adiabatic or wave function renormalization scheme in the short-range modes, we show that one-loop correction to the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Sayantan Choudhury , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , M. Sami

We consider mechanisms for producing a significant population of primordial black holes (PBHs) within string inspired single field models of inflation. The production of PBHs requires a large amplification in the power spectrum of curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Ogan Özsoy , Susha Parameswaran , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Ivonne Zavala