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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are convenient candidates to explain the elusive dark matter (DM). However, years of constraints from various astronomical observations have constrained their abundance over a wide range of masses, leaving only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Jérémy Auffinger

The phenomenology of primordial black hole (PBH) physics and the associated PBH abundance constraints, can be used in order to probe the physics of the early Universe. In this work, we investigate the PBH formation during the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 Shreya Banerjee , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the early Universe during a period of slow reheating after inflation. We demonstrate how the PBH formation mechanism may change even before the end of the matter-dominated phase and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Bernard Carr , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Charlotte Owen , Tommi Tenkanen

We study how the evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) can affect the production of dark matter (DM) particles through thermal processes. We consider fermionic DM interacting with Standard Model particles via a spin-1 mediator in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 Andrew Cheek , Lucien Heurtier , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Jessica Turner

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the most appealing dark matter candidates over a wide range of masses and abundances. This broad parameter space has been constrained by a variety of observational probes. In this work, for the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Joaquim Iguaz Juan

We investigate Primoridal Black Hole (PBH) formation by which we mean black holes produced in the early universe during radiation domination. After discussing the range of PBH mass permitted in the original mechanism of Carr and Hawking,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Paul H. Frampton

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $10^{17} - 10^{23}~{\rm gm}$ are considered as possible dark matter candidates as they are not subject to big-bang nucleosynthesis constraints and behave like cold dark matter. If PBHs are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Semin Xavier , Alan Sunny , S. Shankaranarayanan

The possibility that the dark matter comprises primordial black holes (PBHs) is considered, with particular emphasis on the currently allowed mass windows at $10^{16}$ - $10^{17}\,$g, $10^{20}$ - $10^{24}\,$g and $1$ - $10^{3}\,M_{\odot}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-23 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel , Marit Sandstad

We investigate Hawking evaporation of a population of primordial black holes (PBHs) prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) as a mechanism to achieve asymmetric reheating of two sectors coupled solely by gravity. While the visible sector is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Pearl Sandick , Barmak Shams Es Haghi , Kuver Sinha

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe, for instance during radiation domination, from the collapse of large-amplitude density perturbations shortly after horizon re-entry. This mechanism establishes an approximate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ashu Kushwaha , Teruaki Suyama

We study the generation of primordial black holes (PBH) in a single field inflection point model of inflation wherein the effective potential is expanded up to the sextic order and the inversion symmetry is imposed such that only even…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-20 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

In this paper, we revisit the evaporation and accretion of primordial black holes (PBHs) during cosmic history and compare them to see if both of these processes are constantly active for PBHs or not. Our calculations indicate that during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-27 Seyed Sajad Tabasi , Javad T. Firouzjaee

We reconsider in this work the effects of an energy absorption term in the evolution of primordial black holes (hereafter PBHs) in the several epochs of the Universe. A critical mass is introduced as a boundary between the accreting and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. S. Custodio , J. E. Horvath

The memory-burden effect stabilizes the evaporating Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) before its complete decay. This also suppresses the evaporation flux via the entropy factor to the $k$-th power and circumvents severely astrophysical and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Po-Yan Tseng , Yu-Min Yeh

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a profound signature of primordial cosmological structures and provide a theoretical tool to study nontrivial physics of the early Universe. The mechanisms of PBH formation are discussed and observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Yu. Khlopov

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form spike density halos through the accretion of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In these halos, the enhanced density significantly boosts the annihilation rate of WIMPs. For Majorana dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-05 Shibsankar Si , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Alekha C. Nayak

We investigate the effects of producing dark matter by Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in scenarios that may have a second well-motivated dark matter production mechanism, such as freeze-out, freeze-in, or gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-25 Paolo Gondolo , Pearl Sandick , Barmak Shams Es Haghi

The so-called memory-burden effect implies that evaporating Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) inevitably stabilize before complete decay. This stabilization opens a new mass window for PBH Dark Matter below $10^{15}\,$g. The transition to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-18 Alessandro Dondarini , Giulio Marino , Paolo Panci , Michael Zantedeschi

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are hypothetical black holes predicted to have been formed from density fluctuations in the early Universe. PBHs with an initial mass around $10^{14}-10^{15}$g are expected to end their evaporation at present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 H. E. S. S. collaboration , : , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , J. Aschersleben , M. Boettcher , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzo , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , B. Bi , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de Bony de Lavergne , J. Borowska , F. Bradascio , R. Brose , F. Brun , B. Bruno , T. Bulik , C. Burger-Scheidlin , S. Caro , S. Casanova , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , T. Chand , A. Chen , O. Chibueze , G. Cotter , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , A. Djannati-Atai , K. Egberts , C. van Eldik , J. -P. Ernenwein , M. Fussling , A. Fiasson , G. Fichet de Clairfontaine , G. Fontaine , S. Gabici , S. Ghafourizadeh , G. Giavitto , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , G. Grolleron , M. -H. Grondin , L. Haerer , M. Haupt , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , M. Holler , D. Horns , Zhiqiu Huang , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , V. Joshi , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , K. Katarzynski , B. Khelifi , S. Klepser , W. Kluzniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , T. L. Holch , R. G. Lang , S. Le Stum , F. Leitl , A. Lemiere , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , T. Lohse , A. Luashvili , I. Lypova , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , P. Marchegiani , P. Marinos , G. Marti-Devesa , R. Marx , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , E. Moulin , J. Muller , K. Nakashima , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , P. O'Brien , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , G. Puehlhofer , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , G. Peron , A. Priyana Noel , D. A. Prokhorov , H. Prokoph , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , P. Reichherzer , O. Reimer , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , H. Rueda Ricarte , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , H. M. Schutte , U. Schwanke , J. N. S. Shapopi , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , L. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , I. Sushch , H. Suzuki , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , T. Tavernier , C. Thorpe-Morgan , N. Tsuji , Y. Uchiyama , M. Vecchi , J. Veh , C. Venter , J. Vink , S. J. Wagner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , Yu Wun Wong , M. Zacharias , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. Zouari , N. Zywucka

The fraction of the Universe going into primordial black holes (PBHs) with initial mass M_* \approx 5 \times 10^{14} g, such that they are evaporating at the present epoch, is strongly constrained by observations of both the extragalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 B. J. Carr , Kazunori Kohri , Yuuiti Sendouda , Jun'ichi Yokoyama