Primordial Black Holes from Kinetic Preheating
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| author | Adshead, Peter Currens, Eve Giblin Jr, John T. |
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| contents | We demonstrate that violent kinetic preheating following inflation can lead to the formation of black holes in the early Universe. In $α$-attractor models with derivative inflaton couplings, nonlinear amplification of field fluctuations drives large spacetime curvature and gravitational collapse shortly after inflation ends. Using fully general-relativistic lattice simulations, we find that these dynamics produce black holes with masses of order tens of grams at sub-horizon scales, without requiring large primordial curvature perturbations. Although such micro-black holes evaporate rapidly via Hawking radiation, their formation modifies the post-inflationary equation of state and their evaporation can successfully reheat the Universe before Big Bang nucleosynthesis. These results identify kinetic preheating as a new, efficient channel for black-hole production and establish a direct connection between inflationary symmetries and strong-gravity phenomena at reheating. |
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| spellingShingle | Primordial Black Holes from Kinetic Preheating Adshead, Peter Currens, Eve Giblin Jr, John T. Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology We demonstrate that violent kinetic preheating following inflation can lead to the formation of black holes in the early Universe. In $α$-attractor models with derivative inflaton couplings, nonlinear amplification of field fluctuations drives large spacetime curvature and gravitational collapse shortly after inflation ends. Using fully general-relativistic lattice simulations, we find that these dynamics produce black holes with masses of order tens of grams at sub-horizon scales, without requiring large primordial curvature perturbations. Although such micro-black holes evaporate rapidly via Hawking radiation, their formation modifies the post-inflationary equation of state and their evaporation can successfully reheat the Universe before Big Bang nucleosynthesis. These results identify kinetic preheating as a new, efficient channel for black-hole production and establish a direct connection between inflationary symmetries and strong-gravity phenomena at reheating. |
| title | Primordial Black Holes from Kinetic Preheating |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02059 |