2005/11/26 by B. J. Carr, Carr, B. J. · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Relativity and Gravitational Theory
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0511743
openalex publication_date 2005/11/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Recent developments in the study of primordial black holes (PBHs) are reviewed, with particular emphasis on their formation and evaporation. It is still not clear whether PBHs formed but, if they did, they could provide a unique probe of the early Universe, gravitational collapse, high energy physics and quantum gravity. Indeed their study may place interesting constraints on the physics relevant to these areas even if they never existed.