29 June 2026 to 3 July 2026
Physicum, University of Tartu
Europe/Tallinn timezone

Primordial Black Holes as cosmic expansion accelerators

Not scheduled
20m
A106 (Physicum, University of Tartu)

A106

Physicum, University of Tartu

W. Ostwaldi 1, Tartu
Oral talk

Speaker

Dr Konstantinos Dialektopoulos (University of Malta)

Description

In this seminar, I will present a novel mechanism for cosmic acceleration driven by primordial black holes with effective repulsive behavior. Using a new Swiss Cheese cosmological framework, I will discuss four black hole spacetimes—Hayward, Bardeen, Dymnikova, and de Sitter-Schwarzschild—to show that this acceleration emerges naturally from the geometry itself. The results suggest that ultra-light PBHs could drive inflation without requiring an inflaton, while PBHs with masses $m \sim 10^{12}\mathrm{g}$ and abundances $0.107 < \Omega^\mathrm{eq}_\mathrm{PBH}< 0.5$, slightly before matter-radiation equality, can produce a substantial amount of early dark energy, helping to alleviate the Hubble tension.

Author

Dr Konstantinos Dialektopoulos (University of Malta)

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