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Primordial magnetic fields as the birthplace of ultralight black holes
Subhasis Maiti, Debaprasad Maity
May 13, 2026
A magnetogenesis model during inflation amplifies curvature perturbations at small scales, producing ultralight primordial black holes across a broad mass range. These black holes evaporate quickly, leaving imprints on the reheating era. The resulting stochastic gravitational wave background — sourced by both the electromagnetic spectrum and the evaporating black holes themselves — carries fingerprints of the underlying magnetic field model parameters, making the scenario testable with future gravitational wave detectors.
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