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Black hole relics are of significant interest in cosmology and theoretical physics. In this work, we consider tiny primordial black holes (PBHs) ( $M_{\text {PBH }} \lesssim 10^7 \mathrm{~g}$ ) which are generated soon after the end of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Misao Sasaki , Jianing Wang

We investigate constraints on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range 10^{15}-10^{17} g using data from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and MeV extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Hawking radiation from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Steven Clark , Bhaskar Dutta , Yu Gao , Louis E. Strigari , Scott Watson

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed from the collapse of density fluctuations provide a unique window into the physics of the early Universe. Their evaporation through Hawking radiation around the epoch of Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Quan-feng Wu , Xun-Jie Xu

The \textit{memory burden} effect, the idea that the amount of information stored within a system contributes to its stabilization, is particularly relevant for systems with a large information storage capacity, such as black holes. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Michael Zantedeschi , Luca Visinelli

Possible influence of primordial black hole (PBH) evaporations on cosmic microwave background (CMB) is investigated. The spectrum distortions of CMB from the black-body spectrum are described by the chemical potential $\mu$ and the Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Naoshi Sugiyama

The recently identified \textit{memory burden} effect has the potential to significantly decelerate the evaporation of black holes. Specifically, when approximately half of a black hole's initial mass has been radiated away, the evaporation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Xiu-hui Tan , Yu-feng Zhou

We study the Primordial Black Hole (PBH) reheating scenario, where PBHs originate in a general cosmological background. In this scenario, ultralight PBHs with masses $M\lesssim 10^8$g temporarily dominate the Universe and reheat it via…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Guillem Domènech , Jan Tränkle

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

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

Post-inflationary reheating phase is usually said to be solely governed by the decay of coherently oscillating inflaton into radiation. In this submission, we explore a new avenue toward reheating through the evaporation of primordial black…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-19 Md Riajul Haque , Essodjolo Kpatcha , Debaprasad Maity , Yann Mambrini

Incorporating a realistic model for accretion of ultra-relativistic particles by primordial blackholes (PBHs), we study the evolution of an Einstein-de Sitter universe consisting of PBHs embedded in a thermal bath from the epoch $\sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Niraj Upadhyay , Patrick Das Gupta , R. P. Saxena

Primordial black holes (PBH) can arise in a wide range of scenarios, from inflation to first-order phase transitions. Light PBHs, such as those produced during preheating, in bounce cosmologies, or at the GUT scale, could induce an early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Taehun Kim , Philip Lu

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

JWST is detecting an excess of high-redshift ($z\gtrsim 10$), bright galaxies challenging most theoretical predictions. To address this issue, we investigate the impact of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) on the halo mass function and UV…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-08 Antonio Matteri , Andrea Pallottini , Andrea Ferrara

We discuss a novel window to probe the origin of our universe via the mass functions of primordial black holes (PBHs). The mass functions of PBHs are simply estimated using the conventional Press-Schechter formalism for two paradigms of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 Yi-Fu Cai , Chengfeng Tang , Geyu Mo , Sheng-Feng Yan , Chao Chen , Xiao-Han Ma , Bo Wang , Wentao Luo , Damien Easson , Antonino Marciano

The fact that no Hawking radiation from the final stages of evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs) has yet been observed places stringent bounds on their allowed contribution to dark matter. Concretely, for Schwarzschild PBHs, i.e.,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Jessica Santiago , Justin Feng , Sebastian Schuster , Matt Visser

Primordial black holes (PBH) could account for variety of phenomena like dark matter, reionization of the Universe, early quasars, coalescence of black holes registered through gravitational waves recently. Each phenomenon relates to PBH of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 K. M. Belotsky , A. A. Kirillov , N. O. Nazarova , S. G. Rubin

Observational constraints on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) constrain the allowed amplitude of the primordial power spectrum on both the smallest and the largest ranges of scales, covering over 20 decades from $1-10^{20}/…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Philippa S. Cole , Christian T. Byrnes

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

It has been recently proposed that Hawking evaporation might slow down after a black hole has lost about half of its mass. Such an effect, called "memory burden", is parameterized as a suppression in the mass loss rate by negative powers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Shyam Balaji , Guillem Domènech , Gabriele Franciolini , Alexander Ganz , Jan Tränkle