Primordial black holes

Primordial black holes(PBHs) are a profound signature of primordial cosmological structures and provide a theoretical tool to study nontrivial physics of the early Universe.The mechanisms of PBH formation are discussed and observational constraints on the PBH spectrum,or effects of PBH evaporation,are shown to restrict a wide range of particle physics models,predicting an enhancement of the ultraviolet part of the spectrum of density perturbations,early dust-like stages,first order phase transitions and stages of superheavy metastable particle dominance in the early Universe.The mechanism of closed wall contraction can lead,in the inflationary Universe,to a new approach to galaxy formation,involving primordial clouds of massive BHs created around the intermediate mass or supermassive BH and playing the role of galactic seeds.