Constraints on primordial black holes

B Carr, K Kohri, Y Sendouda… - Reports on Progress in …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We update the constraints on the fraction of the Universe that may have gone into primordial
black holes (PBHs) over the mass range 10− 5 to 10 50 g. Those smaller than∼ 10 15 g …

Cosmology with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Auclair, D Bacon, T Baker, T Barreiro… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of
cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand …

The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Search for signals from new physics

A Afzal, G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The 15 yr pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for
Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) shows positive evidence for the presence of a low …

Recent gravitational wave observation by pulsar timing arrays and primordial black holes: The importance of non-Gaussianities

G Franciolini, AJ Iovino, V Vaskonen, H Veermäe - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We study whether the signal seen by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) may originate from
gravitational waves (GWs) induced by large primordial perturbations. Such perturbations …

New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA

KG Arun, E Belgacem, R Benkel, L Bernard… - Living Reviews in …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders
about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the …

Did NANOGrav see a signal from primordial black hole formation?

V Vaskonen, H Veermäe - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We show that the recent NANOGrav result can be interpreted as a stochastic gravitational
wave signal associated to formation of primordial black holes from high-amplitude curvature …

Primordial non-Gaussianity up to all orders: Theoretical aspects and implications for primordial black hole models

G Ferrante, G Franciolini, AJ Iovino, A Urbano - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We develop an exact formalism for the computation of the abundance of primordial black
holes (PBHs) in the presence of local non-Gaussianity (NG) in the curvature perturbation …

From inflation to black hole mergers and back again: Gravitational-wave data-driven constraints on inflationary scenarios with a first-principle model of primordial black …

G Franciolini, I Musco, P Pani, A Urbano - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Recent population studies have searched for a subpopulation of primordial black holes
(PBHs) in the gravitational-wave (GW) events so far detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) …

Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate

AM Green, BJ Kavanagh - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of gravitational waves from mergers of tens of Solar mass black hole binaries
has led to a surge in interest in primordial black holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate …

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 …