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Mounting evidence suggests that the semi-classical description of a black hole breaks down at the latest after losing an O(1) fraction of its mass. As a result, effects such as memory burden can slow down evaporation so that small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Will Barker , Benjamin Gladwyn , Sebastian Zell

We present a novel \textit{gauge-invariant and minimal} formation mechanism of primordial black holes (PBHs) in first-order phase transition (FOPT) and domain walls (DW) separately. This is based on the first-order tensor perturbations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Utkarsh Kumar , Anish Ghoshal

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may have left an imprint in the form of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) throughout their evolution in the history of the Universe. This review highlights two types of SGWB: those generated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Alba Romero-Rodríguez , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

It has long been suggested that a fraction of the dark matter in the Universe could exist in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) that have existed since the radiation dominated era. Recent studies have suggested that these PBHs may be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Lewis R. Prole , John A. Regan , Daxal Mehta , Peter Coles , Pratika Dayal

Cosmology may give rise to appreciable populations of both particle dark matter and primordial black holes (PBH) with the combined mass density providing the observationally inferred value $\Omega_{\rm DM}\approx0.26$. However, previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Prolay Chanda , Jakub Scholtz , James Unwin

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are of fundamental interest in cosmology and astrophysics, and have received much attention as a dark matter candidate and as a potential source of gravitational waves. One possible PBH formation mechanism is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Alexander C. Jenkins , Mairi Sakellariadou

The energy density of relic gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by primordial black holes (PBHs) is calculated. We estimate the intensity of GWs produced at quantum and classical scattering of PBHs, the classical graviton emission from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Alexander D. Dolgov , Damian Ejlli

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

The recent detection by Advanced LIGO of gravitational waves (GW) from the merging of a binary black hole system sets new limits on the merging rates of massive primordial black holes (PBH) that could be a significant fraction or even the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Sebastien Clesse , Juan García-Bellido

The advent of gravitational wave astronomy has rekindled interest in primordial black holes (PBH) as a dark matter candidate. As there are many different observational probes of the PBH density across different masses, constraints on PBH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-05 Benjamin V. Lehmann , Stefano Profumo , Jackson Yant

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

We derive a strong upper bound on the amount of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) that can still be present in the Universe. Gravitational capture of PBHs by the Milky Way stars during their formation and subsequent accretion would produce a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-04 Marco Roncadelli , Aldo Treves , Roberto Turolla

The possibility that a relevant fraction of the dark matter might be comprised of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) has been seriously reconsidered after LIGO's detection of a $\sim 30 M_{\odot}$ binary black holes merger. Despite the strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 José Luis Bernal , Nicola Bellomo , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde

Primordial black holes (PBH) can efficiently form black hole binaries in the early universe. We update the resulting constraints on PBH abundance using data from the third observational run (O3) of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. To capture a wide range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 M. Andrés-Carcasona , A. J. Iovino , V. Vaskonen , H. Veermäe , M. Martínez , O. Pujolàs , Ll. M. Mir

We investigate a possibility of primordial black hole (PBH) formation with a hierarchical mass spectrum in multiple phases of inflation. As an example, we find that one can simultaneously realize a mass spectrum which has recently attracted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We investigate the formation of primordial black hole (PBH) based on numerical relativity simulations and peak theory as well as the corresponding scalar induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals in the presence of \emph{logarithmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ryoto Inui , Cristian Joana , Hayato Motohashi , Shi Pi , Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

The renewed interest in the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) may constitute a significant part of the dark matter has motivated revisiting old observational constraints, as well as developing new ones. We present new limits on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Riccardo Murgia , Giulio Scelfo , Matteo Viel , Alvise Raccanelli

Primordial black holes (PBH) accretion in the late Universe can lead to significant mass growth. A larger mass further accelerates the accretion radiation output for PBHs with initial masses greater than one solar mass, potentially leading…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zi-Xuan Zhang , Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Hong Li

Pulsar Timing Arrays are playing a crucial role in the ongoing gravitational wave astronomy revolution. The current evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nHz frequencies offers an opportunity to discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Chiara Cecchini , Gabriele Franciolini , Mauro Pieroni

Models in which dark matter consists entirely of primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses around $10^{17}$ g are currently unconstrained. However, if PBHs are a component of the Galactic dark matter density, they will inject a large flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 William DeRocco , Peter W. Graham