Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures

E Bagui, S Clesse, V De Luca, JM Ezquiaga… - Living Reviews in …, 2025 - Springer
In the recent years, primordial black holes (PBHs) have emerged as one of the most
interesting and hotly debated topics in cosmology. Among other possibilities, PBHs could …

Primordial black holes from null energy condition violation during inflation

Y Cai, M Zhu, YS Piao - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Primordial black holes (PBHs) and the violation of the null energy condition (NEC) have
significant implications for our understanding of the very early Universe. We present a novel …

[HTML][HTML] Primordial black holes and induced gravitational waves in non-singular matter bouncing cosmology

T Papanikolaou, S Banerjee, YF Cai… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a novel model-independent generic mechanism for primordial black hole
formation within the context of non-singular matter bouncing cosmology. In particular …

Primordial black holes and gravitational waves from resonant amplification during inflation

Z Zhou, J Jiang, YF Cai, M Sasaki, S Pi - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We present a new realization of the resonant production of primordial black holes as well as
gravitational waves in a two-stage inflation model consisting of a scalar field ϕ with an axion …

Primordial black holes from sound speed resonance during inflation

YF Cai, X Tong, DG Wang, SF Yan - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We report on a novel phenomenon of the resonance effect of primordial density
perturbations arisen from a sound speed parameter with an oscillatory behavior, which can …

When primordial black holes from sound speed resonance meet a stochastic background of gravitational waves

YF Cai, C Chen, X Tong, DG Wang, SF Yan - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
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 …

Primordial black holes from a curvaton scenario with strongly non-Gaussian perturbations

A Gow, T Miranda, S Nurmi - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) in a mixed inflaton-curvaton
scenario with a quadratic curvaton potential, assuming the curvaton is in de Sitter …

Primordial black holes from sound speed resonance in the inflaton-curvaton mixed scenario

C Chen, YF Cai - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We study sound speed resonance (SSR) mechanism for primordial black hole (PBH)
formation in an early universe scenario with inflaton and curvaton being mixed. In this …

Constraining bouncing cosmologies through primordial black holes

S Banerjee, T Papanikolaou, EN Saridakis - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The phenomenology of primordial black hole (PBH) physics and the associated PBH
abundance constraints can be used to probe the physics of the early universe. In this work …

Dirac-Born-Infeld realization of sound speed resonance mechanism for primordial black holes

C Chen, XH Ma, YF Cai - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We present a concrete realization of the sound speed resonance (SSR) mechanism for
primordial black hole (PBH) formation within a specific model of Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) …