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Nonsingular black holes as dark matter

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It is commonly assumed that low-mass primordial black holes cannot constitute a significant fraction of the dark matter in our universe due to their predicted short lifetimes from the conventional Hawking radiation and evaporation process. Assuming physical black holes are nonsingular--likely due to quantum gravity or other high-energy physics--we demonstrate that a large class of nonsingular black holes have finite evaporation temperatures. This can lead to slowly evaporating low-mass black holes or to remnant mass states that circumvent traditional evaporation constraints. As a proof of concept, we explore the limiting curvature hypothesis and the evaporation process of a nonsingular black hole solution in two-dimensional dilaton gravity. We identify generic features of the radiation profile and compare them with known regular black holes, such as the Bardeen solution in four dimensions. Remnant masses are proportional to the fundamental length scale, and we argue that slowly evaporating low-mass nonsingular black holes, or remnants, are viable dark matter candidates.

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Inflation driven by repulsive-like primordial black holes

gr-qc · 2026-04-28 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Repulsive-like primordial black holes in the Swiss-cheese framework produce quasi-de Sitter expansion, enabling inflation with evaporation reheating and acting as early dark energy for certain masses and densities.

Regular black holes with gravitational self-energy as dark matter

gr-qc · 2025-09-10 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Incorporating non-local gravitational self-energy from a T-duality-inspired model yields a regular neutral black-hole metric with extremal Planck-mass particle-black-hole solutions that are thermodynamically stable and suggested as dark matter.

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