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Motivated by recent suggestions that highly damped black hole quasinormal modes (QNM's) may provide a link between classical general relativity and quantum gravity, we present an extensive computation of highly damped QNM's of Kerr black…

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Using high-accuracy numerical relativity waveforms, we confirm the presence of numerous overtones of the $\ell=2$, $m=2$ quasinormal mode early in the ringdown of binary black hole mergers. We do this by demonstrating the stability of the…

Theoretical understanding of the characteristic oscillations of a perturbed black hole, also referred to as quasinormal modes (QNMs), is crucial to interpreting the late stage of binary black hole mergers that we now routinely observe in…

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Motivated by gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers, we present a procedure to compute the leading order nonlinear gravitational wave interactions around a Kerr black hole. We describe the formalism used to derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Nicholas Loutrel , Justin L. Ripley , Elena Giorgi , Frans Pretorius

We investigate the excitation of quasi-normal modes (QNMs) in gravitational lensing by a Schwarzschild black hole using a scalar field model. By employing a time-domain mode-sum method, we analyze the complex interplay between an incident…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Chengjiang Yin , Zihao Lin , Jian-hua He

The ringdown of a perturbed black hole contains fundamental information about space-time in the form of Quasi Normal Modes (QNM). Modifications to general relativity, or extended profiles of other fields surrounding the black hole, so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Jamie Bamber , Oliver J. Tattersall , Katy Clough , Pedro G. Ferreira

We revisit the modelling of black hole ringdown beyond General Relativity (GR), emphasizing the limitations of approaches that rely solely on shifted quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies. Starting from modified Teukolsky equations in such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Jacopo Lestingi , Giovanni D'Addario , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Black-hole spectroscopy aims to infer the fundamental properties of black holes by analysing the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted as they settle into equilibrium. These resonances, known as quasinormal modes (QNMs), decay rapidly,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Pietro Smaniotto , Leonardo Solidoro , Patrik Švančara , Sam Patrick , Maurício Richartz , Carlo F. Barenghi , Ruth Gregory , Silke Weinfurtner

We elucidate that a distinctive resonant excitation between quasinormal modes (QNMs) of black holes emerges as a universal phenomenon at an avoided crossing near the exceptional point through high-precision numerical analysis and theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-10 Hayato Motohashi

Black-hole quasinormal modes (QNM) have been the subject of much recent attention, with the hope that these oscillation frequencies may shed some light on the elusive theory of quantum gravity. We compare numerical results for the QNM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shahar Hod

We investigate the nonlinear evolution of black hole ringdown in the framework of higher-order metric perturbation theory. By solving the initial-value problem of a simplified nonlinear field model analytically as well as numerically, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Satoshi Okuzumi , Kunihito Ioka , Masa-aki Sakagami

We investigate the possibility of using quasi-normal modes (QNMs) to probe the microscopic structure of two-dimensional (2D) anti-de Sitter (AdS$_2$) dilatonic black holes. We first extend previous results on the QNMs spectrum, found for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-01 Mariano Cadoni , Mauro Oi , Andrea Pierfrancesco Sanna

Gravitational wave (GW) detection has enabled us to test General Relativity in an entirely new regime. A prominent role in tests of General Relativity takes the detection of the Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) that arise as the highly distorted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-29 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

We show that the gravitational quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a Schwarzschild black hole play the role of a multimode squeezer that can generate particles. For a minimally coupled scalar field, the QNMs "squeeze" the initial state of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Daiqin Su , C. T. Marco Ho , Robert B. Mann , Timothy C. Ralph

We investigate the perturbation of the scalar field as well as the electromagnetic field over a sort of regular black holes which are characterized by the sub-Planckian curvature and the Minkowskian core. Specifically, we compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Chen Tang , Yi Ling , Qing-Quan Jiang , Guo-Ping Li

We investigate the gravitational quasi-normal modes (QNMs) for a type of regular black hole (BH) known as phantom BH, which is a static self-gravitating solution of a minimally coupled phantom scalar field with a potential. The studies are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-20 Jin Li , Kai Lin , Hao Wen , Wei-Liang Qian

The ringdown phase of gravitational waves emitted by a perturbed black hole is described by a superposition of exponentially decaying sinusoidal modes, called quasinormal modes (QNMs), whose frequencies depend only on the property of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Che-Yu Chen , Petr Kotlařík

We investigate metric perturbations of a spherically symmetric black hole in higher curvature gravity. We show that higher curvature corrections deform the near-horizon region of the effective potential, and that the deviations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Keisuke Nakashi , Masashi Kimura , Hayato Motohashi , Kazufumi Takahashi

We report evidence for nonlinear gravitational effects in the ringdown signal of gravitational wave event GW250114. Using Bayesian inference, we find that the inclusion of a nonlinear quasi-normal mode (220Q), a second-order harmonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Yuxin Yang , Changfu Shi , Yi-Ming Hu

We investigate quasinormal modes (QNMs) of scalar, electromagnetic, and axial gravitational perturbations in slowly rotating Kalb-Ramond (KR) black holes, where an antisymmetric tensor field induces spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking.…

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