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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.
Published as The Magnetic Origin of Primordial Black Holes: Ultralight PBHs and Secondary GWs arXiv:2605.14044
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