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We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) induced by a first-order electroweak phase transition in a realistic renormalizable framework, the complex singlet extension of the Standard Model. We perform a quantitative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Fa Peng Huang , Chikako Idegawa , Aidi Yang

We propose a novel primordial black hole (PBH) formation mechanism based on a first-order phase transition (FOPT). If a fermion species gains a huge mass in the true vacuum, the corresponding particles get trapped in the false vacuum as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Kiyoharu Kawana , Ke-Pan Xie

Primordial black holes (PBHs) and the violation of the null energy condition (NEC) have significant implications for our understanding of the very early universe. We present a novel approach to generate PBHs via the NEC violation in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Yong Cai , Mian Zhu , Yun-Song Piao

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

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Maël Gonin , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , David Blaschke , Günther Hasinger

A universal mechanism may be responsible for several unresolved cosmic conundra. The sudden drop in the pressure of relativistic matter at $W^{\pm}/Z^{0}$ decoupling, the quark--hadron transition and $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation enhances the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Bernard Carr , Sebastien Clesse , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Florian Kuhnel

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may form in the early Universe, from the gravitational collapse of large density perturbations, generated by large quantum fluctuations during inflation. Since PBHs form from rare over-densities, their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Swagat S. Mishra , Edmund J. Copeland , Anne M. Green

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be the source for all or a part of today's dark matter density. Inflation provides a mechanism for generating the seeds of PBHs in the presence of a temporal period where the velocity of an inflaton field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-10 Ryodai Kawaguchi , Shinji Tsujikawa

We report a novel mechanism where two families of primordial black holes (PBHs) may form at nearly the same comoving scales but at two different epochs. It is realized in two-stage inflation where a non-inflationary stage is sandwiched by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Xinpeng Wang , Misao Sasaki , Ying-li Zhang

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

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) arise naturally from high peaks in the curvature power spectrum of near-inflection-point single-field inflation, and could constitute today the dominant component of the dark matter in the universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Ester Ruiz Morales

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be produced from inflation if the primordial curvature power spectrum is strongly enhanced on scales much shorter than those probed by cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. In single-field models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Laura Iacconi

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) generated by gravitational collapse of large primordial overdensities can be a fraction of the observed dark matter. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism to produce a large peak in the primordial power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Matteo Braglia , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Fabio Finelli , George F. Smoot , L. Sriramkumar , Alexei A. Starobinsky

Following a new microlensing constraint on primordial black holes (PBHs) with $\sim10^{20}$--$10^{28}\,\mathrm{g}$~[1], we revisit the idea of PBH as all Dark Matter (DM). We have shown that the updated observational constraints suggest the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Strongly supercooled first-order phase transitions have been proposed as a primordial black hole (PBH) production mechanism. While previous works rely on simplified models with limited thermodynamic precision, we stress that reliable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-25 Maciej Kierkla , Nicklas Ramberg , Philipp Schicho , Daniel Schmitt

There is growing observational evidence for a population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic bulges. We examine in detail the conditions under which these black holes must have originated from primordial black holes (PBHs). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rachel Bean , Joao Magueijo

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) produced in the early Universe have attracted wide interest for their ability to constitute dark matter and explain the compact binary coalescence. We propose a new mechanism of PBH production during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 Jing Liu , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Shao-Jiang Wang

We investigate whether the ultra high energy neutrino inferred by the recent KM3NeT observation could have originated from an evaporating black hole. Given the characteristics of black hole (BH) evaporation mechanism, any object capable of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Andrea Boccia , Fabio Iocco

Primordial black hole (PBH) formation is a more generic phenomenon than was once thought. The dynamics of a scalar field in inflationary universe can produce PBHs under mild assumptions regarding the scalar potential. In the early universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-04 Eric Cotner , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki , Volodymyr Takhistov