Primordial black holes: formation, spin and type II

Abstract

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may have formed through the gravitational collapse of cosmological perturbations that were generated and stretched during the inflationary era, later entering the cosmological horizon during the decelerating phase, if their amplitudes were sufficiently large. In this review paper, we will briefly introduce the basic concept of PBHs and review the formation dynamics through this mechanism, the estimation of the initial spins of PBHs and the time evolution of type II fluctuations, with a focus on the radiation-dominated and (early) matter-dominated phases.

Comments: a review article, revised version, 27 pages, 10 figures, typos corrected, discussions expanded, figures modified, references updated, accepted for publication in Universe on the Special Issue: Primordial Black Holes from Inflation; typos corrected, minor revision