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Primordial black holes, which could have been formed in the very early Universe due to the collapse of large curvature fluctuations, are nowadays one of the most attractive and fascinating research areas in cosmology for their possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Albert Escrivà

The collapse of sufficiently large closed domain wall produced during second order phase transition in the vacuum state of a scalar field can lead to the formation of black hole. The origin of domain walls with appropriate size and energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 S. G. Rubin , M. Yu. Khlopov , A. S. Sakharov

The evolution of the primordial low mass black hole (PBH) in hot universe is considered. Increase of mass and decrease of PBH spin due to the accretion of radiation dominated matter are estimated with using of results of numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , O. Yu. Tsupko

Recently, observational hints for supermassive black holes have been accumulating, which has inspired ones to wonder: Can primordial black holes (PBHs) be supermassive, in particular with the mass $M\gtrsim 10^{9}M_\odot$? A supercritical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-03 Hai-Long Huang , Yong Cai , Jun-Qian Jiang , Jun Zhang , Yun-Song Piao

A discussion at a Scientific American level of the idea that the constituents of the dark mater in galactic halos are primordial intermediate-mass black holes with masses between ten and one hundred thousand times the solar mass.

Popular Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Paul H. Frampton

We reconsider the possibility that the observed baryon asymmetry was generated by the evaporation of primordial black holes that dominated the early universe. We present a simple derivation showing that the baryon asymmetry is insensitive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Baumann , Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

Primordial black holes (PBH) can arise in a wide range of scenarios, from inflation to first-order phase transitions. Light PBHs, such as those produced during preheating, in bounce cosmologies, or at the GUT scale, could induce an early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Taehun Kim , Philip Lu

The primordial black hole (PBH) is an effective candidate for dark matter. In this work, the PBH abundance $f$ is calculated in peak theory, with one or two perturbations in the inflaton potential. We construct an antisymmetric perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 Qing Wang , Yi-Chen Liu , Bing-Yu Su , Nan Li

In the context of the existence of primordial black holes (PBHs), they may compose a fraction of the dark matter of the Universe. Assuming that PBHs fill the dark content of the Milky Way Galaxy in the Galactic halo and dark disk, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-28 Sohrab Rahvar

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can generically form in inflationary setups through the collapse of enhanced cosmological perturbations, providing us access to the early Universe through their associated observational signatures. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Andreas Lymperis , Smaragda Lola , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We explore the prospect of producing primordial black holes around the solar mass region during an early matter domination epoch. The early matter-dominated epoch can arise when a moduli field comes to dominate the energy density of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-14 Sukannya Bhattacharya , Anirban Das , Koushik Dutta

Primordial black holes (PBHs) form from large-amplitude initial density fluctuations and may comprise some or all of the dark matter. If PBHs have a broadly extended mass spectrum, or in mixed PBH-particle dark matter scenarios, the extreme…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 M. Sten Delos , Joseph Silk

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form before cosmological first-order phase transitions, leading to inevitable collisions between PBHs and bubble walls. In this Letter, we have simulated for the first time the co-evolution of an expanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Zi-Yan Yuwen , Cristian Joana , Shao-Jiang Wang , Rong-Gen Cai

Independently from the formation mechanism of primordial black holes in the early Universe, their generation is accompanied by a ringdown phase during which they relax to a stationary configuration and gravitational waves under the form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Valerio De Luca , Antonio J. Iovino , Antonio Riotto

As a nonbaryonic explanation of massive compact halo objects, a phenomenological model is presented which predicts formation of primordial black holes at a desired mass scale. The required feature of initial density fluctuation is realized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We report on a novel phenomenon of the resonance effect of primordial density perturbations arisen from a sound speed parameter with an oscillatory behavior, which can generically lead to the formation of primordial black holes in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-27 Yi-Fu Cai , Xi Tong , Dong-Gang Wang , Sheng-Feng Yan

It was recently shown that black holes could be bouncing stars as a consequence of quantum gravity. We investigate the astrophysical signals implied by this hypothesis, focusing on primordial black holes. We consider different possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-22 Aurelien Barrau , Boris Bolliet , Francesca Vidotto , Celine Weimer

Primordial Black Hole Remnants(PBHRs) can be considered as a primary source of cold dark matter. Hybrid inflation provides a possible framework for production of primordial black holes(PBHs) and these PBHs evaporate subsequently to produce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 Kourosh Nozari

We show how magnetic accretion of positronium (electron-positron) plasma by primordial black holes might significantly contribute to the mass of dark matter in the present Universe. Assuming that background gamma radiation is primordial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-06 T. Kenneth Fowler , Richard Anantua

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