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We propose that the kinematical observations of dwarf galaxies can be used to constrain the primordial black hole's (PBH) abundance in dark matter since the presence of primordial black holes in star clusters will lead to the radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 Bo-Qiang Lu , Yue-Liang Wu

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs), their spin and abundance, in a single-field inflationary model based on a mutated hilltop potential inserted with a small step-like feature. This step induces a brief phase of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Abolhassan Mohammadi , Yogesh , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu

We investigate the constraint on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) and the spectral index $n$ of primeval density perturbations given by the ionizing photon background at the epoch of reionization. Within the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping He , Li-Zhi Fang

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) and stochastic gravitational waves background (SGWB) produced by the supercooled radion phase transition (PT) in warped extra-dimension models solving the gauge hierarchy problem. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-10 Anish Ghoshal , Eugenio Megias , Germano Nardini , Mariano Quiros

Aims. This study investigates the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) in shaping cosmic radiation backgrounds--the cosmic X-ray background (CXB), the Lyman-Werner background (LWB), and the cosmic radio background (CRB)--and evaluates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 C. Casanueva-Villarreal , N. Padilla , P. B. Tissera , B. Liu , V. Bromm

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) serve as a unique probe to the physics of the early Universe, particularly inflation. In light of this, we study the formation of PBHs by the collapse of overdense perturbations generated during a model of warm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Richa Arya

We compute the isotropic radiation background due to Hawking emission from primordial black holes (PBHs), and examine if this background is a viable option in explaining the excess radiowave background observed by the ARCADE2 and LWA1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 Shikhar Mittal , Girish Kulkarni

The production rate of primordial black holes is often calculated by considering a nearly Gaussian distribution of cosmological perturbations, and assuming that black holes will form in regions where the amplitude of such perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Chul-Moon Yoo , Tomohiro Harada , Jaume Garriga , Kazunori Kohri

It was shown by (Nakamura et al. 1997), (Ioka et al. 1998), and (Sasaki et al. 2016) that primordial black holes (PBHs) binaries can form effectively at the cosmological stage of radiation dominance, and the merge of the PBHs in pairs can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-02 Yu. N. Eroshenko

Tight constraints on the abundance of primordial black holes can be deduced across a vast range of masses, with the exception of those light enough to fully evaporate before nucleosynthesis. This hypothetical population is almost entirely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 J. Luna Zagorac , Richard Easther , Nikhil Padmanabhan

Primordial black holes are unique probes of cosmology, general relativity, quantum gravity and non standard particle physics. They can be considered as the ultimate particle accelerator in their last (explosive) moments since they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Lehoucq , M. Casse , J. -M. Casandjian , I. Grenier

We show that primordial black holes (PBHs) in the $\textit{Stupendously Large Black Hole}$ mass range ($M \gtrsim 10^{11}\,M_\odot$) produce isocurvature perturbations exceeding current $\textit{Planck}$ Cosmic Microwave Background limits,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Christopher Gerlach , Yann Gouttenoire , Antonio J. Iovino , Nicholas Leister

We revisit the constraints on evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs) from the isotropic X-ray and soft gamma-ray background in the mass range $10^{16}-10^{18}$ g. We find that they are stronger than usually inferred due to two neglected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-03 J. Iguaz , P. D. Serpico , T. Siegert

We study the properties of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) resulting from the mergers of primordial black holes (PBH) that formed from the collapse of sub-horizon regions in the early universe. We adopt a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Stefano Profumo , Fengwei Yang

We investigate the enhancement of the curvature perturbations in a single-field slow-roll inflation with a spectator scalar field kinetically coupled to the inflaton. The coupling term with a periodic function of inflaton triggers the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Rong-Gen Cai , Chao Chen , Chengjie Fu

Recent studies of gamma-ray, cosmic-ray and radio data put stringent constraints on the fraction of primordial black holes (PBHs) in our universe. In this article, we propose a new indirect method in using the X-ray luminosity data of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Chak Man Lee , Man Ho Chan

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes that might have formed in high density regions in the early universe. The presence of local-type non-Gaussianity can lead to large-scale fluctuations in the PBH formation rate. If PBHs make up a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-30 Raphaël van Laak , Sam Young

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

A significant abundance of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter can be produced by curvature perturbations with power spectrum $\Delta_\zeta^2(k_{\mathrm{peak}})\sim \mathcal{O}(10^{-2})$ at small scales, associated with the generation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-09 Fengge Zhang , Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu

Recent high-cadence observations by Subaru-HSC have identified a population of ultrashort-timescale microlensing events, providing a compelling window for planet-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) to constitute the entirety of dark matter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Guillem Domènech , Shi Pi , Ao Wang