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most citedPrimordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates

191 citations · 485 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Primordial Asymmetries, Primordial Equation of State & Primordial Black Holes

Maël Gonin, Julien Froustey, Albert Escrivà +3

We study the thermal history of the primordial Universe in the presence of non-zero lepton and baryon asymmetries. Considering different scenarios, we determine the equation of sta…

astro-ph.CO2026

Gravitational Imprints of Axion Clouds on Black-Hole Orbital Dynamics

J. Ruz, V. Mungai, F. Kühnel +4

Black holes of primordial or astrophysical origin immersed in axion dark matter provide a natural laboratory for exploring the interplay between compact objects and ultralight scal…

gr-qc2026

Parameter Estimation on LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4a Binary Merger Triggers with Sub-solar Mass Components

Nelson Christensen, Neil Cornish, Florian Kühnel +2

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has reported the results for searches for sub-solar mass components in compact binary coalescence during observing run O4a. No detection candidat…

hep-ph2026

Observing Micro Black Hole Dark Matter

Manuel Ettengruber, Florian Kühnel

Primordial micro black holes can constitute dark matter if short-distance gravity is modified by extra dimensions or a large number of species and if the memory-burden effect suffi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 10 cited

Revisiting Primordial Black Hole Capture by Neutron Stars

Roberto Caiozzo, Gianfranco Bertone, Florian Kühnel

A sub-solar mass primordial black hole (PBH) passing through a neutron star, can lose enough energy through interactions with the dense stellar medium to become gravitationally bou…

astro-ph.CO2024

Reconstructing Primordial Black Hole Power Spectra from Gravitational Waves

Daniel Frolovsky, Florian Kuhnel, Ioanna Stamou

A novel methodology for analysing the relation between the energy density in gravitational waves and primordial power spectra is developed. Focusing on scalar-induced gravitational…

astro-ph.SR2023

Solar evolution models with a central black hole

Earl P. Bellinger, Matt E. Caplan, Taeho Ryu +6

Hawking (1971) proposed that the Sun may harbor a primordial black hole whose accretion supplies some of the solar luminosity. Such an object would have formed within the first 1 s…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Vortex Effects in Merging Black Holes and Saturons

Gia Dvali, Oleg Kaikov, Florian Kuhnel +2

Vorticity has recently been suggested to be a property of highly-spinning black holes. The connection between vorticity and limiting spin represents a universal feature shared by o…

hep-th2021★ 22 cited

Vortices in Black Holes

Gia Dvali, Florian Kuhnel, Michael Zantedeschi

We argue that black holes admit vortex structure. This is based both on a graviton-condensate description of a black hole as well as on a correspondence between black holes and gen…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 191 cited

Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates

Bernard Carr, Florian Kuhnel

We review the formation and evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) and their possible contribution to dark matter. Various constraints suggest they could only provide most of…

hep-ph2017★ 76 cited

Novel Constraints on Mixed Dark-Matter Scenarios of Primordial Black Holes and WIMPs

Sofiane M. Boucenna, Florian Kuhnel, Tommy Ohlsson +1

We derive constraints on mixed dark-matter scenarios consisting of primordial black holes (PBHs) and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In these scenarios, we expect a d…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 43 cited

On Ellipsoidal Collapse and Primordial Black-Hole Formation

Florian Kuhnel, Marit Sandstad

We reinvestigate gravitational ellipsoidal collapse with special focus on its impact on primordial black-hole formation. For a generic model we demonstrate that the abundance and e…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 68 cited

Effects of Critical Collapse on Primordial Black-Hole Mass Spectra

Florian Kuhnel, Cornelius Rampf, Marit Sandstad

Certain inflationary models as well as realisations of phase transitions in the early Universe predict the formation of primordial black holes. For most mass ranges, the fraction o…

gr-qc2015★ 7 cited

Corpuscular Consideration of Eternal Inflation

Florian Kuhnel, Marit Sandstad

We review the paradigm of eternal inflation in the light of the recently proposed corpuscular picture of space-time. Comparing the strength of the average fluctuation of the field…

gr-qc2015★ 16 cited

Consistent Cosmic Microwave Background Spectra from Quantum Depletion

Roberto Casadio, Florian Kuhnel, Alessio Orlandi

Following a new quantum cosmological model proposed by Dvali and Gomez, we quantitatively investigate possible modifications to the Hubble parameter and following corrections to th…

hep-th2014★ 17 cited

High-Energy Gravitational Scattering and Bose-Einstein Condensates of Gravitons

Florian Kuhnel, Bo Sundborg

Quantum black holes are difficult to describe. We consider two seemingly divergent approaches, high-energy scattering and the proposal to regard black holes as Bose-Einstein conden…

hep-th2011★ 11 cited

Island of Stability for Consistent Deformations of Einstein's Gravity

Felix Berkhahn, Dennis Dietrich, Stefan Hofmann +2

We construct explicitly deformations of Einstein's theory of gravity that are consistent and phenomenologically viable since they respect, in particular, cosmological backgrounds.…

hep-ph2010★ 17 cited

Large-Scale Suppression from Stochastic Inflation

Florian Kuhnel, Dominik J. Schwarz

We show non-perturbatively that the power spectrum of a self-interacting scalar field in de Sitter space-time is strongly suppressed on large scales. The cut-off scale depends on t…

gr-qc2008★ 6 cited

Stochastic Inflation and Replica Field Theory

Florian Kuhnel, Dominik J. Schwarz

We adopt methods from statistical field theory to stochastic inflation. For the example of a free test field in de Sitter and power-law inflation, the power spectrum of long-wavele…