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Primordial black holes (PBHs) arise from the collapse of density perturbations in the early universe and serve as a dark matter (DM) candidate and a probe of fundamental physics. There remains an unconstrained ``asteroid-mass'' window where…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Alexandra P. Klipfel , Peter Fisher , David I. Kaiser

Primordial black holes (PBHs), formed out of large overdensities in the early Universe, are a viable dark matter (DM) candidate over a broad range of masses. Ultra-light, asteroid-mass PBHs with masses around $10^{17}$ g are particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 Anupam Ray , Ranjan Laha , Julian B. Muñoz , Regina Caputo

Primordial black holes (PBHs), hypothesized to form in the early universe from gravitational collapse of density fluctuations, represent a well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidate. Their potential detection through gamma-ray signatures…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-23 C. J. Ouseph , Giorgio Busoni , John Gargalionis , Sin Kyu Kang , Anthony G. Williams

Within the mass range of $10^{16}-5\times 10^{18}$ g, primordial black holes (PBHs) persist as plausible candidates for dark matter. Our study involves a reassessment of the constraints on PBHs through a comparative analysis of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Xiu-hui Tan , Jun-qing Xia

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are of interest in many cosmological contexts. PBHs lighter than about 1012 kg are predicted to be directly detectable by their Hawking radiation. This radiation should produce both a diffuse extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-05 Jane H MacGibbon , Tilan N. Ukwatta , J. T. Linnemann , S. S. Marinelli , D. Stump , K. Tollefson

The detection of gamma-ray signals from primordial black holes (PBHs) could provide compelling evidence for their role as a dark matter candidate, particularly through the observation of their Hawking radiation. Future gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-07 Kingman Cheung , C. J. Ouseph , Po-Yan Tseng , Sin Kyu Kang

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) in the mass range $\sim 10^{17}- 10^{22}$g are currently unconstrained, and can constitute the full Dark Matter (DM) density of the universe. Motivated by this, in the current work, we aim to relate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Diptimoy Ghosh , Arvind Kumar Mishra

Primordial black holes (PBHs) remain a viable dark matter candidate in the asteroid-mass range. We point out that in this scenario, the PBH abundance would be large enough for at least one object to cross through the inner Solar System per…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Tung X. Tran , Sarah R. Geller , Benjamin V. Lehmann , David I. Kaiser

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are an attractive dark matter candidate, particularly if they can explain the totality of it. At PBH masses below $\sim 10^{17}$g and above $\sim 10^{23}$g this possibility is excluded from the variety of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Peter Tinyakov

Current observations allow Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) in asteroid mass range $10^{17}-10^{22}$ g to constitute the entire dark matter (DM) energy density (barring a small mass range constrained by 21 cm observations). In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 Diptimoy Ghosh , Divya Sachdeva , Praniti Singh

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) created early in the universe are dark matter candidates. One method of detecting these PBHs is through their Hawking radiation. PBHs created with an initial mass of 5.0 x 10^14 g should be evaporating today…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-23 T. U. Ukwatta , D. Stump , J. T. Linnemann , K. Tollefson , V. Vasileiou , G. Sinnis , J. H. MacGibbon

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are the plausible candidates for the cosmological dark matter. Theoretically, PBHs with masses $M_{\rm PBH}$ in the range of $4\times10^{14}\sim 10^{17}\,{\rm g}$ can emit sub-GeV electrons and positrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 Bing-Yu Su , Xu Pan , Guan-Sen Wang , Lei Zu , Yupeng Yang , Lei Feng

Superradiance provides a unique opportunity for investigating dark sectors as well as primordial black holes, which themselves are candidates for dark matter over a wide mass range. Using axion-like particles as an example, we show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Tao Xu

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a compelling candidate for Dark Matter (DM). There remain significant parameter spaces to be explored despite current astrophysical observations have set strong limits. Utilizing advanced MeV observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Zhen Xie , Bing Liu , Jiahao Liu , Yi-Fu Cai , Ruizhi Yang

Despite decades of research, the existence of asteroid-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) remains almost completely unconstrained and thus could still comprise the totality of dark matter (DM). In this paper, we show that standard searches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-21 Andrew L. Miller

The detection of primordial black holes (PBHs) would mark a major breakthrough, with far-reaching implications for early universe cosmology, fundamental physics, and the nature of dark matter. Gravitational wave observations have recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrea Begnoni , Stefano Profumo

Currently the asteroid mass window (mass $\sim 10^{17}- 10^{21}$ grams) remains unconstrained for Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) to make up all of the dark matter content of the universe. Given these PBHs have very small masses, their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Emily Koivu , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Christopher M. Hirata

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have long been suggested as a candidate for making up some or all of the dark matter in the Universe. Most of the theoretically possible mass range for PBH dark matter has been ruled out with various null…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Ely D. Kovetz

In this $\textit{Letter}$, we search for the signal of the primordial black holes (PBHs) by correlating the $\gamma$-ray emissions in the MeV energy band produced by the Hawking evaporation and the lensing effect of the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Xiu-Hui Tan , Yang-Jie Yan , Taotao Qiu , Jun-Qing Xia
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