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Primordial Black Holes and Modification of Zeldovich–Novikov Mechanism

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Bulk of various astronomical observations of black holes suggest that virtually all observed black holes can be of primordial origin. A modified mechanism of the primordial black hole formation is described. A universal log-normal mass spectrum with a mean mass of around \( \sim 10{{M}_{ \odot }}\) predicted by this mechanism is strongly confirmed by the LIGO/Virgo observations of gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes.

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A.D. acknowledges the support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant no. FSUS-2020-0039. K.P. acknowledges the support from the RSF Grant 19-42-02004.

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  1. Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

    A. D. Dolgov

  2. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    K. A. Postnov

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Paper presented at the Fourth Zeldovich meeting, an international conference in honor of Ya.B. Zeldovich held in Minsk, Belarus, on September 7–11, 2020. Published by the recommendation of the special editors: S.Ya. Kilin, R. Ruffini, and G.V. Vereshchagin.

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Dolgov, A.D., Postnov, K.A. Primordial Black Holes and Modification of Zeldovich–Novikov Mechanism. Astron. Rep. 65, 921–925 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772921100061

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