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Did NANOGrav see a signal from primordial black hole formation?

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arxiv 2009.07832 v4 pith:DT2VGC66 submitted 2020-09-16 astro-ph.CO

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We show that the recent NANOGrav result can be interpreted as a stochastic gravitational wave signal associated to formation of primordial black holes from high-amplitude curvature perturbations. The indicated amplitude and power of the gravitational wave spectrum agrees well with formation of primordial seeds for supermassive black holes.

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