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Should Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) exist in nature, they would inevitably accrete baryonic matter in their vicinity. In turn, the consequent emission of high-energy radiation could affect the thermal history of the universe to an extent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Lorenzo Piga , Matteo Lucca , Nicola Bellomo , Valentì Bosch-Ramon , Sabino Matarrese , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde

Rotating black holes (BHs) can efficiently transfer energy to the surrounding environment via superradiance. In particular, when the Compton length of a particle is comparable to the gravitational radius of a BH, the particle's occupation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Nicolás Bernal , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Yong Xu

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are thought to have been formed as a result of density fluctuations in the very early Universe. It is suggested that PBHs of mass $\sim 5 \times 10^{14} \mathrm{\ g}$ or less have evaporated through the release…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Sajan Kumar

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a fascinating candidate for being the dark matter, albeit one which has been heavily constrained. This review presents an in depth look at those observational constraints, particularly at their nuances and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Marc Oncins

The Hawking evaporation process, leading to the production of detectable particle species, constrains the abundance of light black holes, presumably of primordial origin. Here, we reconsider and correct constraints from soft gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Mrunal Korwar , Stefano Profumo

The recent observations of the global 21cm signal by EDGES and gravitational waves by LIGO/VIGO have revived interest in PBHs. Different from previous works, we investigate the influence of PBHs on the evolution of the IGM for the mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 Yupeng Yang

We find the constraint on the population of ultra-light regular primordial black holes (RPBHs) by using isocurvature gravitational waves (GW). If ultra-light RPBHs dominated the early Universe, the initial isocurvature perturbation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Ngo Phuc Duc Loc

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) created early in the universe are dark matter candidates. One method of detecting these PBHs is through their Hawking radiation. PBHs created with an initial mass of 5.0 x 10^14 g should be evaporating today…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-23 T. U. Ukwatta , D. Stump , J. T. Linnemann , K. Tollefson , V. Vasileiou , G. Sinnis , J. H. MacGibbon

Sufficiently large scalar perturbations in the early Universe can create over-dense regions that collapse into primordial black holes (PBH). This process is accompanied by the emission of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Junsong Cang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Yu Gao

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences provide an independent probe of the cosmic expansion history other than electromagnetic waves. In this work, we assume the binary black holes (BBHs) detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Shen-Shi Du , Qing-Guo Huang , Zhi-Qiang You

We investigate the spectral shape of a high-energy diffuse photon emitted by evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs) in the Randall-Sundrum type II (RS2) braneworld. In their braneworld scenario, the nature of small PBHs is drastically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuuiti Sendouda , Shigehiro Nagataki , Katsuhiko Sato

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe are sources of neutrinos emitted via Hawking radiation. Such astrophysical neutrinos could be detected at Earth and constraints on the abundance of comet-mass PBHs could be derived…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-30 Nicolás Bernal , Víctor Muñoz-Albornoz , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Pablo Villanueva-Domingo

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are considered viable candidates for dark matter and the seeds of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), with their fruitful physical influences providing significant insights into the conditions of the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-30 Junyue Yang , Xiaoding Wang , Xiao-Han Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Sheng-Feng Yan , Amara Ilyas , Yi-Fu Cai

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form as a result of primordial scalar perturbations at small scales. This PBH formation scenario has associated gravitational wave (GW) signatures from second-order GWs induced by the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 Jonathan Kozaczuk , Tongyan Lin , Ethan Villarama

Astrophysical luminous objects such as the first stars have not yet formed in the Dark Ages. However, primordial black holes (PBHs) always exist throughout cosmic history since the inflation epoch. During the Dark Ages, PBHs may accrete the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Zhihe Zhang , Bin Yue , Yidong Xu , Yin-Zhe Ma , Xuelei Chen

We show that the number of primordial black holes (PBHs) which is originated from primordial density perturbations with moderately-tilted power spectrum fluctuates following the log-normal distribution, while it follows the Poisson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Naoya Kitajima

The presence of an extra radio background besides the cosmic microwave background has important implications for the observation of the 21-cm signal during the cosmic Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and epoch of Reionization. The strong absorption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Zhihe Zhang , Bin Yue , Yidong Xu , Yin-Zhe Ma , Xuelei Chen , Maoyuan Liu

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are capable of emitting extremely energetic particles independent of their interactions with the Standard Model. In this work, we investigate whether PBHs evaporating in the early universe could be responsible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-28 Quan-feng Wu , Xun-Jie Xu

We investigate the imprints of memory-burdened primordial black holes (PBH) on the global 21 cm signal during the cosmic dawn. Recent studies reopened the possibility of a mass window of PBHs as a compelling candidate for dark matter,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Priyanka Sarmah , Kingman Cheung