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The merger rate of primordial black hole (PBH) binaries can be used to understand the source population of the merging black hole binaries observable through gravitational-waves (GWs) and also to constrain the possible contribution of PBHs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Muhsin Aljaf , Ilias Cholis

The possible existence of primordial black holes (PBHs) is an open question in modern cosmology. Among the probes to test it, gravitational waves (GW) coming from their mergers constitute a powerful tool. In this work, we study how stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sarah Libanore , Michele Liguori , Alvise Raccanelli

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter and may also account for a fraction of the binary black hole mergers observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. In this study, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Aritra Basak , Maxim Khlopov , Maxim Krasnov

In this paper, the merger rate of black holes in a cluster of primordial black holes (PBHs) is investigated. The clusters have characteristics close to those of typical globular star clusters. A cluster that has a wide mass spectrum ranging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-01 Viktor D. Stasenko , Alexander A. Kirillov

Primordial black holes (PBHs), possibly constituting a non-negligible fraction of dark matter (DM), might be responsible for a number of gravitational wave events detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA. In this paper, we simulate the evolution of PBH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 Muhsin Aljaf , Ilias Cholis

In this Paper we consider a problem of formation and evolution of orbital parameters of a binary primordial black hole (PBH) due to gravitational interaction with clustering cold dark matter (CDM). Mass and initial separation have values,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sergey Pilipenko , Maxim Tkachev , Pavel Ivanov

The gravitational wave signals detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration can be explained by mergers of binary primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the radiation dominated epoch. However, in early structures induced by the Poisson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Viktor Stasenko

The abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $0.1 - 10^3 M_\odot$ can potentially be tested by gravitational wave observations due to the large merger rate of PBH binaries formed in the early universe. To put the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-01 Martti Raidal , Christian Spethmann , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are known as one of the potential candidates for dark matter. They are expected to have formed due to the direct gravitational collapse of density fluctuations in the early Universe. Therefore, the study of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-11 Saeed Fakhry

One of the seemingly strongest constraints on the fraction of dark matter in the form of primordial black holes (PBH) of ${\cal O}$(10)$\,M_\odot$ relies on the merger rate inferred from the binary BH merger events detected by LIGO/Virgo.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Guillermo Ballesteros , Pasquale D. Serpico , Marco Taoso

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form an initially clustered population depending on their production mechanism. Motivated by binary black-hole merger events observed by gravitational-wave interferometers, we revisit the evaluation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Kentaro Kasai , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kai Murai , Shunsuke Neda

As a candidate of dark matter, primordial black holes (PBHs) have attracted more and more attentions as they could be possible progenitors of the heavy binary black holes (BBHs) observed by LIGO/Virgo. Accurately estimating the merger rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 You Wu

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be not only cold dark matter candidates but also progenitors of binary black holes observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration. The PBH mass can be shifted to the heavy distribution if multi-merger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Lang Liu , Zhi-Qiang You , You Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen

In this paper we study the evolution of a primordial black hole binary (BHB) in a sample of over 1500 direct-summation $N-$body simulations of small-and intermediate-size isolated star clusters as proxies of galactic open clusters. The BHBs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 S. Rastello , P. Amaro-Seoane , M. Arca-Sedda , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , G. Fragione , I. Tosta e Melo

The Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gradually involved into consideration as the phenomenon having reliable basis. We discuss here the possibility of their agglomeration into clusters that may have several prominent observable features.…

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have long been a candidate for the elusive dark matter (DM), and remain poorly constrained in the ~20-100 Msun mass range. PBH binaries were recently suggested as the possible source of LIGO's first detections.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Ely D. Kovetz , Marc Kamionkowski

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) can form in the early universe and might comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. Interestingly, they are accompanied by the generation of Gravitational Wave (GW) signals and they could contribute to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 G. Franciolini

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe that can contribute to dark matter (DM) abundance have been linked to gravitational wave observations. Super-massive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies are expected to modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Volodymyr Takhistov

The probability that the primordial black hole (PBH) binaries formed in the early Universe can be affected by the Hubble expansion of background, which is non-negligible when the number density of PBHs is very low (it is actually this case…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Hai-Long Huang , Jun-Qian Jiang , Yun-Song Piao
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