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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Tegan A. Thomas , Angelo Ricarte , Cora Prather , Hyerin Cho

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

First order phase transitions (FOPTs) are usually described by the nucleation and expansion of new phase bubbles in the old phase background. While the dynamics of new phase bubbles have been extensively studied, a comprehensive treatment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Philip Lu , Kiyoharu Kawana , Ke-Pan Xie

The shadows cast by non-rotating and rotating modified gravity (MOG) black holes are determined by the two parameters mass $M$ and angular momentum $J=Ma$. The sizes of the shadows cast by the spherically symmetric static Schwarzschild-MOG…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-26 J. W. Moffat

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) in the mass range $\sim 10^{17}- 10^{22}$g are currently unconstrained, and can constitute the full Dark Matter (DM) density of the universe. Motivated by this, in the current work, we aim to relate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Diptimoy Ghosh , Arvind Kumar Mishra

A highly accurate computer program is used to study axially symmetric and stationary spacetimes containing a Black Hole surrounded by a ring of matter. It is shown that the matter ring affects the properties of the Black Hole drastically.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Petroff , Marcus Ansorg

In this study, we investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in a scalar field inflationary model coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term with fractional power-law potentials. The coupling function enhances the curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Ali Ashrafzadeh , Kayoomars Karami

We performed the detailed analysis of the primordial black hole (PBH) formation mechanism in an axionlike curvaton model with a coupling to inflaton. The phase direction of the complex scalar works as a curvaton and produces enough PBHs to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-25 Kenta Ando , Masahiro Kawasaki , Hiromasa Nakatsuka

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could be formed if large perturbations are generated on small scales in inflation. We study a toy inflation model with a local minimum. The curvature perturbations are enhanced when the inflaton passes through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Bao-Min Gu , Fu-Wen Shu , Ke Yang , Yu-Peng Zhang

We propose a new scenario for the evolution of a binary of primordial black holes (PBHs). We consider a dynamical friction by ambient dark matter, scattering of dark matter particles with a highly eccentric orbit besides the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kimitake Hayasaki , Keitaro Takahashi , Yuuiti Sendouda , Shigehiro Nagataki

We perform an accurate computation of the production rate for primordial black holes (PBHs). The reason is that the underlying mass variance had been overestimated systematically, as was shown recently. For scale-free powerlaw primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Blais , Torsten Bringmann , Claus Kiefer , David Polarski

Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH) with masses ranging from $\sim 10^{-1}$ to $\sim 10^9$ g can generate the whole observed dark matter (DM) relic density. However, a second DM production mechanism, like freeze-out or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Nicolás Bernal , Óscar Zapata

The spins of binary black holes (BBHs) measured from gravitational waves carry notable information of the formation pathways. Here we propose a quantity "dimensionless net spin" ($\chi_{\rm N}$), which is related to the sum of angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-06 Wei-Hua Guo , Yin-Jie Li , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yong Shao , Shichao Wu , Tao Zhu , Yi-Zhong Fan

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

Inflation provides a suitable environment for the formation of Primordial Black Holes(PBHs). In this article, we examine the formation of primordial black holes in the Mutated Hilltop inflation model coupled with the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Yogesh , Abolhassan Mohammadi

We investigate a mechanism of primordial black hole (PBH) formation that avoids any dependence on specific inflationary features or exotic physics. In this scenario, the required large curvature fluctuations leading to PBH formation are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ioanna Stamou , Sebastien Clesse

We present a study of spinning black hole binaries focusing on the spin dynamics of the individual black holes as well as on the gravitational recoil acquired by the black hole produced by the merger. We consider two series of initial spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Frank Herrmann , Ian Hinder , Deirdre M. Shoemaker , Pablo Laguna , Richard A. Matzner

We use the canonical Hamiltonian formalism to generalize to spinning point particles the first law of mechanics established for binary systems of non-spinning point masses moving on circular orbits [Le Tiec, Blanchet, and Whiting, Phys.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-26 Luc Blanchet , Alessandra Buonanno , Alexandre Le Tiec

It has recently been suggested that black holes may be described as condensates of weakly interacting gravitons at a critical point, exhibiting strong quantum effects. In this paper, we study a model system of attractive bosons in one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 D. Flassig , A. Pritzel , N. Wintergerst

The generalization of the black hole in three-dimensional spacetime to include an electric charge Q in addition to the mass M and the angular momentum J is given. The field equations are first solved explicitly when Q is small and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Cristian Martinez , Claudio Teitelboim , Jorge Zanelli