Using gravitational waves to see the first second of the Universe

R Roshan, G White - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2025 - APS
Gravitational waves are a unique probe of the early Universe, as the Universe is transparent
to gravitational radiation right back to the end of inflation. This review summarizes detection …

Primordial black hole constraints with Hawking radiation—A review

J Auffinger - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Primordial black holes are under intense scrutiny since the detection of gravitational waves
from mergers of Solar-mass black holes in 2015. More recently, the development of …

Gravitational wave signatures of no-scale supergravity in NANOGrav and beyond

S Basilakos, DV Nanopoulos, T Papanikolaou… - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
In this Letter, we derive for the first time a characteristic three-peaked GW signal within the
framework of no-scale Supergravity, being the low-energy limit of Superstring theory. We …

Ultralow mass primordial black holes in the early Universe can explain the pulsar timing array signal

N Bhaumik, RK Jain, M Lewicki - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Pulsar timing array collaborations have recently announced the discovery of a stochastic
gravitational wave (GW) background at nanohertz frequencies. We analyze the GW signals …

Probing modified Hawking evaporation with gravitational waves from the primordial black hole dominated universe

S Balaji, G Domènech, G Franciolini… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
It has been recently proposed that Hawking evaporation might slow down after a black hole
has lost about half of its mass. Such an effect, called" memory burden", is parameterized as …

The primordial black holes that disappeared: connections to dark matter and MHz-GHz gravitational Waves

TC Gehrman, BSE Haghi, K Sinha… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In the post-LIGO era, there has been a lot of focus on primordial black holes (PBHs) heavier
than∼ 10 15 g as potential dark matter (DM) candidates. We point out that the branch of the …

Primordial black hole archaeology with gravitational waves from cosmic strings

A Ghoshal, Y Gouttenoire, L Heurtier… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Light primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses smaller than 10 9 g (10− 24 M⊙)
evaporate before the onset of Big-Bang nucleosynthesis, rendering their detection rather …

Evaporation of primordial black holes in the early Universe: Mass and spin distributions

A Cheek, L Heurtier, YF Perez-Gonzalez, J Turner - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Many cosmological phenomena lead to the production of primordial black holes in the early
Universe. These phenomena often create a population of black holes with extended mass …

Gravitational waves from primordial black hole isocurvature: the effect of non-Gaussianities

XC He, YF Cai, XH Ma, T Papanikolaou… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultra-light primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses M PBH< 5× 10 8 g can dominate
transiently the energy budget of the Universe and reheat the Universe through their …

Induced gravitational waves from flipped SU (5) superstring theory at nHz

S Basilakos, DV Nanopoulos, T Papanikolaou… - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
The no-scale flipped SU (5) superstring framework constitutes a very promising paradigm for
physics below the Planck scale providing us with a very rich cosmological phenomenology …