Did NANOGrav See a Signal from Primordial Black Hole Formation?

Phys Rev Lett. 2021 Feb 5;126(5):051303. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.051303.

Abstract

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.