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Primordial black holes formed in an early post-inflation matter-dominated epoch during preheating provide a novel pathway for a source of the dark matter that utilizes known physics in combination with plausible speculations about the role…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-30 J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , Joseph Silk

Primordial black holes are black holes that may have formed from density fluctuations in the early universe. It has been theorized that black holes slowly evaporate. If primordial black holes of initial mass of $10^{14}$g were formed, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Simon Archambault

The new dynamical solutions of Einstein's equations with perfect fluid in space-times with FLRW asymptotic behaviour, derived recently \cite{Cot,Cot1,Cot2}, may describe evaporating black holes whose masses dissipate into dust. The time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Ion I. Cotaescu , Ion Cotaescu

Primordial black holes as dark matter may be generated in single-field models of inflation thanks to the enhancement at small scales of the comoving curvature perturbation. This mechanism requires leaving the slow-roll phase to enter a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Matteo Biagetti , Gabriele Franciolini , Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

A variety of scenarios for early-universe cosmology give rise to a population of primordial black holes (PBHs) with a broad spectrum of masses. The evaporation of PBHs in such scenarios has the potential to place the universe into an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Keith R. Dienes , Lucien Heurtier , Fei Huang , Doojin Kim , Tim M. P. Tait , Brooks Thomas

In this work we extend previous work on the evolution of a Primordial Black Hole (PBH) to address the presence of a dark energy component with a super-negative equation of state as a background, investigating the competition between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel C. Guariento , J. E. Horvath , P. S. Custódio , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco

Primordial black holes are analytically and numerically discussed based on the extended McVittie spacetime solution. By assuming that dark matter and radiation are the only sources of energy accreted by the forming central object, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 F. Ruiz , C. Molina , J. A. S. Lima

Large curvature perturbations generated during slow first-order phase transitions are a promising source of primordial black holes. However, recent analyses suggested that the mechanism is ruled out once the density contrast and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-22 Wen-Yuan Ai , Ke-Pan Xie

We examine the production and evolution of microscopic black holes in the early universe in the large extra dimensions scenario. We demonstrate that, unlike in the standard four-dimensional cosmology, in large extra dimensions absorption of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 John A. Conley , Tommer Wizansky

The local primordial density fluctuations caused by quantum vacuum fluctuations during inflation grow into stars and galaxies in the late universe and, if they are large enough, also produce primordial black holes. We study the formation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Neven Bilić , Dragoljub D. Dimitrijević , Goran S. Djordjevic , Milan Milošević , Marko Stojanović

Black hole formation/evaporation in two-dimensional dilaton gravity can be described, in the limit where the number $N$ of matter fields becomes large, by a set of second-order partial differential equations. In this paper we solve these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Tsvi Piran , Andrew Strominger

Primordial Black Holes evaporate due to Hawking radiation. We find that the evaporation time of primordial black holes increase when accretion of radiation is included.Thus depending on accretion efficiency more and more number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-20 Bibekananda Nayak , Lambodar Prasad Singh

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may be part of the dark matter. It is shown here that PBHs form more easily during cosmic phase transitions. For approximately scale-invariant primordial curvature fluctuations the PBH mass function may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Karsten Jedamzik

Our early Universe is not perfectly homogeneous and it may contain some inhomogeneous sources, which might distort the local spacetime and modify the bubble nucleation rate. Taking the primordial black hole as an extreme example, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-17 Yijie Chang , Shihang Tang , Haowen Deng , Yefeng Wang , Ran Ding , Fa Peng Huang

The cosmological evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) is considered. A comprehensive view of the accretion and evaporation histories of PBHs across the entire cosmic history is presented, with focus on the critical mass holes. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-25 Jared R. Rice , Bing Zhang

The possibility that dark matter particles could be constituted by extreme regular primordial black holes is discussed. Extreme black holes have zero surface temperature, and are not subjected to the Hawking evaporation process. Assuming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-14 José Antonio de Freitas Pacheco

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 may form in the early Universe, for example from the collapse of large amplitude density perturbations predicted in some inflationary models. Light black holes undergo Hawking evaporation, the energy injection from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew R Liddle , Anne M Green

Small black holes should have formed in the early Universe if the density contrast was high enough. This article aims at giving a - biased and partial - short overview of the latest breakthroughs in this field. It first deals with tentative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Boudoul , A. Barrau

Phase transitions in the early universe are prime settings for the production of primordial black holes, since they can break the relatively quiescent homogeneity and isotropy of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmologies. These epochs of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mitesh Patel , George M. Fuller