Cosmological implications for hairy black holes via spontaneous symmetry breaking: Are Hairy Black Holes Primordial?

arXiv:2609.02102 · gr-qc, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph, hep-th · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Reheating — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 13× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Nonminimal coupling — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Institute for Basic Science — 2× in this paper
• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis — 1× in this paper
• Effective Field Theory (EFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Multi-messenger Astronomy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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