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Black hole formation and slow-roll inflation

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Black hole formation may occur if the spectrum of the curvature perturbation \zeta increases strongly as the scale decreases. As no such increase is observed on cosmological scales, black hole formation requires strongly positive running n' of the spectral index n, though the running might only kick in below the `cosmological scales' probed by the CMB anisotropy and galaxy surveys. A concrete and well-motivated way of producing this running is through the running mass model of slow roll inflation. We obtain a new observational bound n' < 0.026 on the running provided by this model, improving an earlier result by a factor two. We also discuss black hole production in more general scenarios. We show that the usual conditions \epsilon << 1 and |\eta| << 1 are enough to derive the spectrum {\cal P}_{\zeta}(k), the introduction of higher order parameters \xi^{2} etc. being optional.

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Constraints on Primordial Black Holes

astro-ph.CO · 2020-02-27 · accept · novelty 4.0

Updated compilation shows PBHs are tightly constrained across 55 orders of magnitude in mass, ruling out dominant dark matter contributions except in narrow windows, with many limits carrying observational uncertainties.

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  • Effects of formation channels and gravitational lensing on stochastic gravitational wave background gr-qc · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 14 · internal anchor

    Using HBI on GWTC-4 data the authors compute lensed SGWBs for ABHs and PBHs and conclude that LIGO and ET can distinguish the two formation channels in specific frequency ranges, with ET offering broader coverage.

  • Constraints on Primordial Black Holes astro-ph.CO · 2020-02-27 · accept · none · ref 66 · internal anchor

    Updated compilation shows PBHs are tightly constrained across 55 orders of magnitude in mass, ruling out dominant dark matter contributions except in narrow windows, with many limits carrying observational uncertainties.