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It is broadly accepted that Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) are located in the centers of most massive galaxies, although there is still no convincing scenario for the origin of their massive seeds. It has been suggested that primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-11 José Luis Bernal , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde , Joseph Silk

Formation of significant number of primordial black holes (PBHs) is realized if and only if primordial density fluctuations have a large amplitude, which means that tensor perturbations generated from these scalar perturbations as a second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-06 Ryo Saito , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We consider primordial black hole (PBH) production in inflationary $\alpha$-attractors. We discuss two classes of models, namely models with a minimal polynomial superpotential as well as modulated chaotic ones that admit PBHs. We find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-11 Ioannis Dalianis , Alex Kehagias , George Tringas

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) may have formed from the collapse of cosmic string loops. The spectral shape of the PBH mass spectrum can be determined by the scaling argument for string networks. Limits on the spectral amplitude derived from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 U. F. Wichoski , Jane H. MacGibbon , Robert H. Brandenberger

We study the consequences of supersymmetry for primordial black hole (PBH) abundance constraints. PBHs with mass less than about 10^{11}g will emit supersymmetric particles when they evaporate. In most models of supersymmetry the lightest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne M. Green

We consider the signatures of a population of primordial black holes (PBHs) in future observations of 21cm radiation from neutral hydrogen at high redshift. We focus on PBHs in the mass range $5 \times 10^{10} kg \lesssim M_{PBH} \lesssim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-03 Katherine J. Mack , Daniel H. Wesley

Theoretical studies on the memory-burden effect suggest that Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) with masses smaller than $10^{15}$ grams may be viable dark matter candidates and, consequently, be potential sources of high-energy particles in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-29 Marco Chianese

Hawking evaporation of primordial black hole (PBH), with mass $3\times 10^{-17} \lesssim M_{\rm PBH}/M_\odot \lesssim 7\times 10^{-17}$ and fractional abundance $0.01 \lesssim f_{\rm PBH} \lesssim 0.5$, well reproduces 511 keV gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-17 Po-Yan Tseng , Yu-Min Yeh

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

Overdense regions can collapse into primordial black holes (PBHs) in the early universe, which are a compelling candidate for dark matter. Current constraints leave the asteroid-mass window the only possible one for PBH to account for all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wencong Hong , Shi Pi , Ao Wang , Zhenyu Zhang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) within the mass range $10^{17} - 10^{22}$ g are a favorable candidate for describing the all of the dark matter content. Towards the lower end of this mass range, the Hawking temperature, $T_{\rm H}$, of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Makana Silva , Gabriel Vasquez , Emily Koivu , Arijit Das , Christopher Hirata

While Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) with masses $M_{\rm PBH} \gtrsim 10^{-11} \, M_\odot$ cannot comprise the entirety of dark matter, the existence of even a small population of these objects can have profound astrophysical consequences. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 Estanis Utrilla Ginés , Samuel J. Witte , Olga Mena

We calculate the gravitational waves (GWs) induced by the density fluctuations due to inhomogeneous distribution of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the case where PBHs eventually dominate and reheat the universe by Hawking evaporation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-06 Guillem Domènech , Chunshan Lin , Misao Sasaki

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

Black holes formed in the early universe, prior to the formation of stars, can exist as dark matter and also contribute to the black hole merger events observed in gravitational waves. We set a new limit on the abundance of primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-16 Philip Lu , Volodymyr Takhistov , Graciela B. Gelmini , Kohei Hayashi , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Alexander Kusenko

In this paper, we consider the hypothesis that fractions of dark matter could be constituted by primordial black holes (PBHs). To test this possibility, we work out the observational properties of a static black hole embedded in the dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Rocco D'Agostino , Roberto Giambò , Orlando Luongo

We investigate the effect of non-evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs) on the ionization and thermal history of the universe. X-rays emitted by gas accretion onto PBHs modify the cosmic recombination history, producing measurable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Massimo Ricotti , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Katherine J. Mack

Ultra-light primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range of 10$^{16}$ - 10$^{22}$ g are allowed by current observations to constitute a significant fraction, if not all, of the dark matter in the Universe. In this work, we present limits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-26 Denys Malyshev , Emmanuel Moulin , Andrea Santangelo

The presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs, $M_{\bullet}\sim 10^{6-10}~M_{\odot}$) in the first cosmic Gyr ($z\gtrsim 6$) challenges current models of BH formation and evolution. We propose a novel mechanism for the formation of early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-07 Francesco Ziparo , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Ferrara

As space expands, the energy density in black holes increases relative to that of radiation, providing us with motivation to consider scenarios in which the early universe contained a significant abundance of such objects. In this study, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Celeste Keith , Dan Hooper , Nikita Blinov , Samuel D. McDermott