Primordial Black Holes

The unexplored early universe

Illustration of the early universe in the context of the primordial black hole scenario and induced gravitational waves. Figure made by myself with Goodnotes. The early universe and gravitational waves In the last decades we learned a lot about the early universe. We are certain that the universe, since its first seconds, was so dense and hot that all particles blended in a uniform soup.

Were recently reported MHz events planet mass primordial black hole mergers?

A bulk acoustic wave cavity as high frequency gravitational wave antenna has recently detected two rare events at $5.5$MHz. Assuming that the detected events are due to gravitational waves, their characteristic strain amplitude lies at about …

Exploring Evaporating Primordial Black Holes with Gravitational Waves

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe have been connected with the nature of dark matter and can significantly affect cosmological history. We show that coincidence dark radiation and density fluctuation gravitational wave signatures …

Cosmology of strongly interacting fermions in the early universe

In view of growing interest in long range scalar forces in the early universe to generate primordial black holes, we study in detail the general relativistic formulation of a Fermi gas interacting with a scalar field in cosmology. Motivated by long …

Gravitational wave constraints on the primordial black hole dominated early universe

We calculate the gravitational waves (GWs) induced by the density fluctuations due to inhomogeneous distribution of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the case where PBHs eventually dominate and reheat the universe by Hawking evaporation. The initial …