A recent study on Primordial black holes has confirmed that the marginal rise in potential energy resulted in birth of several PBHs and also emitted very powerful gravitational waves.
Primordial Black Holes (PBH) were formed during the Hot Big Bang phase.
PBH can be massively large as 3000 kms or be extremely tiny like nucleus of an atom.
It is believed that they are formed as a result of collapsing radiations as opposed to the collapse of massive stars, which is the case of any other black holes.
Primordial black holes were born as a result of a tiny bump in the potential energy levels of the universe, at a time when it was expanding rapidly.
After big bang the universe had expanded to nearly 10^27 times its original size.
It occurred within just fraction of a second by the time Cosmic Inflation phase concluded.
Thereafter, the remnant energy possessed by gravitational force got converted mainly into photons (light) in addition to protons, electrons, neutrons and other particles.
As the universe continued to grow exponentially during the Cosmic Inflation phase, it was sent across tiny quantum jitters.
These fluctuations, released in a specific fashion, when sufficiently large, slowly give birth to galaxies and stars and there is a bump in energy.
Among those that were significantly large, helped form PBHs.
The bump in energy then produces PBHs besides triggering very strong gravitational waves.