Published December 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Seven hints for primordial black hole dark matter

  • 1. Namur Center of Complex Systems (naXys), Department of Mathematics, University of Namur, Rempart de la Vierge 8, 5000 Namur (Belgium)
  • 2. Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Institut de Recherche en Mathematique et Physique (IRMP), Louvain University, 2 Chemin du Cyclotron, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
  • 3. CERN, Theoretical Physics Department, 1211 Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 4. Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autonóma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid (Spain)

Description

Seven observations point towards the existence of primordial black holes (PBH), constituting the whole or an important fraction of the dark matter in the Universe: the mass and spin of black holes detected by Advanced LIGO/VIRGO, the detection of micro-lensing events of distant quasars and stars in M31, the non-detection of ultra-faint dwarf satellite galaxies with radius below 15 parsecs, evidences for core galactic dark matter profiles, the correlation between X-ray and infrared cosmic backgrounds, and the existence of super-massive black holes very early in the Universe's history. Some of these hints are newly identified and they are all intriguingly compatible with the re-constructed broad PBH mass distribution from LIGO events, peaking on PBH mass mPBH3M and passing all other constraints on PBH abundances. PBH dark matter also provides a new mechanism to explain the mass-to-light ratios of dwarf galaxies, including the recent detection of a diffuse galaxy not dominated by dark matter. Finally we conjecture that between 0.1% and 1% of the events detected by LIGO will involve a PBH with a mass below the Chandrasekhar mass, which would unambiguously prove the existence of PBH.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2018.08.004

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DOI
10.1016/j.dark.2018.08.004;
PII
S2212686418301250;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics of the Dark Universe
Journal Volume
22
Journal Page Range
p. 137-146
ISSN
2212-6864

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