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Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form before cosmological first-order phase transitions, leading to inevitable collisions between PBHs and bubble walls. In this Letter, we have simulated for the first time the co-evolution of an expanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Zi-Yan Yuwen , Cristian Joana , Shao-Jiang Wang , Rong-Gen Cai

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes which may have formed very early on during the radiation dominated era in the early universe. We present here a method by which the large scale perturbations in the density of primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Sam Young , Christian T. Byrnes

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) can form in the early universe and might comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. Interestingly, they are accompanied by the generation of Gravitational Wave (GW) signals and they could contribute to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 G. Franciolini

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form in the early stages of the Universe via the collapse of large density perturbations. Depending on the formation mechanism, PBHs may exist and populate today the galactic halos and have masses in a wide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-13 Lindita Hamolli , Mimoza Hafizi , Francesco De Paolis , Achille A. Nucita

As potential candidates of dark matter, primordial black holes (PBHs) are within the core scopes of various astronomical observations. In light of the explosive development of gravitational wave (GW) and radio astronomy, we thoroughly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-23 Yi-Fu Cai , Chao Chen , Xi Tong , Dong-Gang Wang , Sheng-Feng Yan

We calculate the mass distribution of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) produced during metric preheating. After inflation, the oscillations of the inflaton at the bottom of its potential source a parametric resonant instability for small-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Pierre Auclair , Vincent Vennin

Gravitational waves can probe the existence of planetary-mass primordial black holes. Considering a mass range of $[10^{-7}-10^{-2}]M_\odot$, inspiraling primordial black holes could emit either continuous gravitational waves,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-25 Andrew L. Miller , Sébastien Clesse , Federico De Lillo , Giacomo Bruno , Antoine Depasse , Andres Tanasijczuk

We review our semi-analytic model of stellar black hole (BH) mass growth by gas accretion in gas-rich stellar clusters during their birthstage within the first $\sim 10\,{\rm Myr}$ after the first stellar formation event. Such proto-stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-24 Zacharias Roupas

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) could compose the dark matter content of the Universe. We present the first simulations of cosmological structure formation with PBH dark matter that consistently include collisional few-body effects,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 M. Sten Delos , Antti Rantala , Sam Young , Fabian Schmidt

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 search for dark matter candidates includes primordial black holes (PBHs) as possible constituents. Recent studies show that some PBHs can survive to the present epoch by gaining angular momentum through Hawking radiating photons and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 Soham Acharya , Shuvayu Roy , Sudipta Sarkar

Primordial black hole (PBH) mergers have been proposed as an explanation for the gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO collaboration. Such PBHs may be formed in the early Universe as a result of the collapse of extremely rare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-20 Tomohiro Nakama , Joseph Silk , Marc Kamionkowski

We investigate features of Gravitational Waves (GWs) induced by primordial density fluctuations with a large amplitude peak associated with formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs). It is shown that the spectrum of induced GW is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-06 Ryo Saito , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Primordial black holes can be produced by density fluctuations generated from delayed vacuum decays of first-order phase transition. The primordial black holes generated at the electroweak phase transition have masses of about $10^{-5}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-27 Katsuya Hashino , Shinya Kanemura , Tomo Takahashi

Primordial black holes are unique probes of cosmology, general relativity, quantum gravity and non standard particle physics. They can be considered as the ultimate particle accelerator in their last (explosive) moments since they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Lehoucq , M. Casse , J. -M. Casandjian , I. Grenier

We show that the number of primordial black holes (PBHs) which is originated from primordial density perturbations with moderately-tilted power spectrum fluctuates following the log-normal distribution, while it follows the Poisson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Naoya Kitajima

We present a novel \textit{gauge-invariant and minimal} formation mechanism of primordial black holes (PBHs) in first-order phase transition (FOPT) and domain walls (DW) separately. This is based on the first-order tensor perturbations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Utkarsh Kumar , Anish Ghoshal

This study presents a new framework to explore the fundamental relationship between gravity and quantum mechanics, with particular emphasis on the fundamental role of primordial black holes (PBHs) in cosmology. Through the concept of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Victor Borsevici , Samit Ganguly , Goutam Manna

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could be formed if large perturbations are generated on small scales in inflation. We study a toy inflation model with a local minimum. The curvature perturbations are enhanced when the inflaton passes through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Bao-Min Gu , Fu-Wen Shu , Ke Yang , Yu-Peng Zhang