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Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) forming prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis evolve during the reheating epoch, an environment dominated by an oscillating inflaton field decaying into a relativistic thermal bath. In this work, we track the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jitumani Kalita , Debaprasad Maity

We review the formalism of primordial black holes (PBHs) production and show that the mass variance at horizon crossing has been systematically overestimated in previous studies. We derive the correct expression. The difference is maximal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Torsten Bringmann , Claus Kiefer , David Polarski

In response to a recent criticism, appeared in arXiv:2303.00341, we argue that the standard scenario to form primordial black holes in the early universe based on a phase of ultra-slow-roll in single-field inflation is not ruled out.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-06 A. Riotto

The photons emitted by primordial black holes (PBHs) can be a heating factor for interstellar dust. Assuming that dust in the Galaxy has a homogeneous distribution and that PBHs have the same distribution as dark matter (DM), we constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 A. N. Melikhov , E. V. Mikheeva

The most widely studied formation mechanism of a primordial black hole is collapse of large-amplitude perturbation on small scales generated in single-field inflation. In this Letter, we calculate one-loop correction to the large-scale…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-30 Jason Kristiano , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

The quantum genesis of Hawking radiation is a long-standing puzzle in black hole physics. Semi-classically one can argue that the spectrum of radiation emitted by a black hole look very much sparse unlike what is expected from a thermal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-05 Kinjalk Lochan , Sumanta Chakraborty

In the early universe, evaporating black holes heat up the surrounding plasma and create a temperature profile around the black hole that can be more important than the black hole itself. As an example, we demonstrate how the hot plasma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Saurav Das , Anson Hook

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) can form in the radiation dominated early Universe from the collapse of large density perturbations produced by inflation. A power-law parameterisation of the primordial power spectrum is often used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Anne M. Green

The Hawking temperature for the Schwarzschild black hole is divergent when the mass of the black hole vanishes; however the corresponding geometry becomes the Minkowski spacetime whose intrinsic temperature is zero. In connection with this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Myungseok Eune , Yongwan Gim , Wontae Kim

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have been explored as potential dark matter candidates, with various astrophysical observations placing upper limits on the fraction $f_\mathrm{PBH}$ of dark matter in the form of PBHs. However, a largely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Nabendu Kumar Khan , Anupam Ray , Girish Kulkarni , Basudeb Dasgupta

We study the generation of a localized peak in the primordial spectrum of curvature perturbations from a transient dissipative phase during inflation, leading to a large population of primordial black holes. The enhancement of the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Guillermo Ballesteros , Marcos A. G. García , Alejandro Pérez Rodríguez , Mathias Pierre , Julián Rey

It has recently been suggested that black hole remnants of primordial origin are not a viable dark matter candidate since they would have far too large a velocity due to the recoil of Hawking radiation. We re-examined this interesting claim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-28 Sofia Di Gennaro , Yen Chin Ong

We discuss the possibility of forming primordial black holes during a first-order phase transition in the early Universe. As is well known, such a phase transition proceeds through the formation of true-vacuum bubbles in a Universe that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael J. Baker , Moritz Breitbach , Joachim Kopp , Lukas Mittnacht

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 in this paper investigate the formation and evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) in nonsingular bouncing cosmologies. We discuss the formation of PBH in the contracting phase and calculate the PBH abundance as a function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-18 Jie-Wen Chen , Junyu Liu , Hao-Lan Xu , Yi-Fu Cai

The thermal balance between the black hole and surrounding thermal radiation is an interesting topic. The primordial black hole is a type of black hole formed in the early universe, especially during the thermal radiation period of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-02 Ruifeng Zheng

Primordial black holes are produced in a minimal UV extension to the Higgs inflation with an included $R^2$ term. We show that for parameters consistent with Standard Model measurements and Planck observation results lead to $M_{\rm PBH}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Dhong Yeon Cheong , Sung Mook Lee , Seong Chan Park

We explore the role of dissipative effects during warm inflation leading to the small-scale enhancement of the power spectrum of curvature perturbations. In this paper, we specifically focus on non-canonical warm inflationary scenarios and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Richa Arya , Rajeev Kumar Jain , Arvind Kumar Mishra

Massive primordial halos exposed to moderate UV backgrounds are the potential birthplaces of supermassive black holes. In such a halo, an initially isothermal collapse will occur, leading to high accretion rates of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-14 M. A. Latif , D. R. G. Schleicher

We present a novel mechanism for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs). The mechanism is based on a period of thermal inflation followed by fast-roll inflation due to tachyonic mass of order the Hubble scale. Large perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-02 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Tommi Markkanen , Antonio Racioppi , Ville Vaskonen