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The 21-cm global signal, a treasure trove of information about the nature of the first luminous sources of the Universe, has traditionally been modelled assuming that these early sources were predominantly star-forming galaxies. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Atrideb Chatterjee

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

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 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

Hawking radiation from primordial black holes (PBH) can ionize and heat up neutral gas during the cosmic dark ages, leaving imprints on the global 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen. We use the global 21-cm signal to constrain the abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yin-Zhe Ma

We investigate the effect of accreting primordial black holes (PBHs) on the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM), including the accretion of baryonic matter and dark matter particles. The variations of the thermal history of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-21 Yupeng Yang

Using the global 21-cm signal measurement by the EDGES collaboration, we derive constraints on the fraction of the dark matter that is in the form of primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses in the range $10^{15}$-$10^{17}\,$g. Improving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Shikhar Mittal , Anupam Ray , Girish Kulkarni , Basudeb Dasgupta

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

The discoveries of a number of binary black hole mergers by LIGO and VIRGO has reinvigorated the interest that primordial black holes (PBHs) of tens of solar masses could contribute non-negligibly to the dark matter energy density. Should…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Samuel J. Witte

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 investigate the impact of radiation from primordial black holes (PBHs), in the mass range of $10^{15} \lesssim M_{\rm PBH} \lesssim 10^{17}~\rm g$ and $10^{2} \lesssim M_{\rm PBH} \lesssim 10^{4}~M_{\odot}$, on the 21-cm angular-power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Yupeng Yang

The 21 cm signal produced by non-evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs) is investigated. X-ray photons emitted by accretion of matter onto a PBH ionize and heat the intergalactic medium (IGM) gas near the PBH. Using a simple analytic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Naoshi Sugiyama

Baryonic matter can be accreted on to primordial back holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe. The radiation from accreting PBHs is capable of altering the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM), leaving marks on the global 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-12 Yupeng Yang

Detection of the global 21 cm signal arising from neutral hydrogen can revolutionize our understanding of the standard evolution of the universe after recombination. In addition, it can also be an excellent probe of Dark Matter (DM). Among…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Akash Kumar Saha , Ranjan Laha

Primordial black holes (PBHs) as part of the Dark Matter (DM) would modify the evolution of large-scale structures and the thermal history of the universe. Future 21 cm forest observations, sensitive to small scales and the thermal state of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Kiyotomo Ichiki

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

The EDGES experiment has recently measured an anomalous global 21-cm spectrum due to hydrogen absorptions at redshifts of about $z\sim 17$. Model independently, the unusually low temperature of baryons probed by this observable sets strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Andi Hektor , Gert Hütsi , Luca Marzola , Martti Raidal , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

We study the upper projected bounds on the dark matter fraction in the form of the primordial black holes (PBHs) with a non-zero spin by using the absorption feature in the global 21-cm signal at redshift z ~ 17. The mass and spin are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Alekha C. Nayak , Tripurari Srivastava

Primordial black hole production in the mass range $10-10^4 \,{\rm M_\odot}$ is motivated respectively by interpretations of the LIGO/Virgo observations of binary black hole mergers and by their ability to seed intermediate black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Philippa S. Cole , Joseph Silk

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently identified Abell 2744-QSO1 as a compact, metal-poor, black hole (BH) dominated galaxy at $z\simeq 7$. This system exhibits an extreme black-hole-to-stellar mass ratio and unusually low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Saiyang Zhang , Boyuan Liu , Volker Bromm , Florian Kühnel
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