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In recent years, the formation of primordial black holes (PBH) in the early universe inflationary cosmology has garnered significant attention. One plausible scenario for primordial black hole (PBH) formation arises during the preheating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Daniel del-Corral , Paolo Gondolo , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

Cosmic necklaces are hybrid topological defects consisting of monopoles and strings. We argue that primordial black holes(PBHs) may have formed from loops of the necklaces, if there exist stable winding states, such as coils and cycloops.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Tomohiro Matsuda

A primordial black hole (PBH) is thought to be made of the regular matter or ordinary mass ($M$) only, and hence could have already been decayed due to the Hawking radiation if its initial ordinary mass were $\lesssim 5 \times 10^{11}$ kg.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 Chandrachur Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya

This is a review article on the primordial black holes (PBHs), with particular focus on the massive ones ($\gtrsim 10^{15}{\rm g}$) which have not evaporated by the present epoch by the Hawking radiation. By the detections of gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Misao Sasaki , Teruaki Suyama , Takahiro Tanaka , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are, typically light, black holes which can form in the early Universe. There are a number of formation mechanisms, including the collapse of large density perturbations, cosmic string loops and bubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Anne M. Green

The primordial black hole (PBH) is an effective candidate for dark matter. In this work, the PBH abundance $f$ is calculated in peak theory, with one or two perturbations in the inflaton potential. We construct an antisymmetric perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 Qing Wang , Yi-Chen Liu , Bing-Yu Su , Nan Li

We study the generation of primordial black holes (PBH) in a single field inflection point model of inflation wherein the effective potential is expanded up to the sextic order and the inversion symmetry is imposed such that only even…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-20 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

We compare primordial black hole (PBH) constraints on the power spectrum and mass distributions using the traditional Press Schechter formalism, peaks theory, and a recently developed version of peaks theory relevant to PBHs. We show that,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-09 Andrew D. Gow , Christian T. Byrnes , Philippa S. Cole , Sam Young

Primordial black holes, which could have been formed in the very early Universe due to the collapse of large curvature fluctuations, are nowadays one of the most attractive and fascinating research areas in cosmology for their possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Albert Escrivà

Primordial black holes form in the early Universe and constitute one of the most viable candidates for dark matter. The study of their formation process requires the determination of a critical energy density perturbation threshold…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Theodoros Papanikolaou

Recent astronomical data on Black hole observations are reviewed. The arguments in favor that the observed black holes are predominantly primordial (PBH) are presented. The mass spectrum of PBH is best fit to the log-normal one. A model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 A. D. Dolgov

Although dark matter in galaxies may consist of elementary particles different from those that make up ordinary matter and that would be smoothly distributed (still undetected), the so-called primordial black holes (PBHs) formed soon after…

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

The Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gradually involved into consideration as the phenomenon having reliable basis. We discuss here the possibility of their agglomeration into clusters that may have several prominent observable features.…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed compact, massive proto-stellar clusters of low metallicity in the Cosmic Gems arc galaxy at high redshift, which represent likely precursors to globular clusters. We model the mass growth…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Zacharias Roupas

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are an important tool in cosmology to probe the primordial spectrum of small-scale curvature perturbations that reenter the cosmological horizon during radiation domination epoch. We numerically solve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-28 Tomohiro Nakama , Tomohiro Harada , A. G. Polnarev , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

The intermediate mass black hole range, $10\lesssim M_{\rm BH}^{}/M_\odot^{}\lesssim 10^{5} $, has long offered enticing possibilities for primordial black holes (PBH), with populations in this range postulated to be responsible for some of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-31 Philip Lu , Kiyoharu Kawana , Alexander Kusenko

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBH) with ultra-slow-roll inflation when stochastic effects are important. We use the $\Delta N$ formalism and simplify the stochastic equations with an analytical constant-roll…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Sami Raatikainen , Syksy Rasanen , Eemeli Tomberg

Massive Primordial Black Holes (MPBH) can be formed after inflation due to broad peaks in the primordial curvature power spectrum that collapse gravitationally during the radiation era, to form clusters of black holes that merge and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Juan García-Bellido

The fraction of the Universe going into primordial black holes (PBHs) with initial mass M_* \approx 5 \times 10^{14} g, such that they are evaporating at the present epoch, is strongly constrained by observations of both the extragalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 B. J. Carr , Kazunori Kohri , Yuuiti Sendouda , Jun'ichi Yokoyama