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The instability of rotating Kerr black holes due to massive scalar perturbations is investigated. It is well known that a bosonic field impinging on a Kerr black hole can be amplified as it scatters off the hole. This superradiant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Shahar Hod

Bosonic fields on rotating black hole spacetimes are subject to amplification by superradiance, which induces exponentially-growing instabilities (the `black hole bomb') in two scenarios: if the black hole is enclosed by a mirror, or if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-02 Sam R. Dolan

We study the superradiant instability of a massive boson around a spinning black hole in full general relativity without assuming spatial symmetries. We focus on the case of a rapidly spinning black hole in the presence of a vector boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-28 William E. East

We examine the stability of a spherically symmetric regular black hole when subjected to perturbations from a charged scalar field. This particular black hole is constructed by deforming the Minkowski spacetime. It has been observed that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Yizhi Zhan , Hengyu Xu , Shao-Jun Zhang

A co-rotating bosonic field interacting with a spinning Kerr black hole can extract rotational energy and angular momentum from the hole. This intriguing phenomenon is known as superradiant scattering. As pointed out by Press and Teukolsky,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Shahar Hod

A charged scalar field impinging upon a charged Reissner-Nordstrom black hole can be amplified as it scatters off the hole, a phenomenon known as superradiant scattering. This scattering process in the superradiant regime w<qQ/r_+ (here w,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Shahar Hod

Black hole superradiance has proven being very valuable in several realms of gravitational physics, and holds a promising discovery potential. In this paper, we consider the superradiant instability of magnetically-charged, rotating black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 David Pereñiguez , Marina de Amicis , Richard Brito , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

Due to coherent superradiant amplification, massive bosonic fields can trigger an instability in spinning black holes, tapping their energy and angular momentum and forming macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensates around them. This phenomenon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 Oscar J. C. Dias , Giuseppe Lingetti , Paolo Pani , Jorge E. Santos

Charged rotating Kerr-Newman black holes are known to be superradiantly unstable to perturbations of charged massive bosonic fields whose proper frequencies lie in the bounded regime $0 < \omega < \text{min} \{\omega_{\text{c}} \equiv m…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-28 Shahar Hod

Ultralight bosonic fields in the mass range $\sim (10^{-20}-10^{-11})\,{\rm eV}$ can trigger a superradiant instability that extracts energy and angular momentum from an astrophysical black hole with mass $M\sim(5,10^{10})M_\odot$, forming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-23 Giuseppe Ficarra , Paolo Pani , Helvi Witek

The well-known superradiant amplification mechanism allows a charged scalar field of proper mass $\mu$ and electric charge $q$ to extract the Coulomb energy of a charged Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. The rate of energy extraction can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-08 Shahar Hod

A massive spin-2 field can grow unstably around a black hole, giving rise to a potential probe of the existence of such fields. In this work, we use time-domain evolutions to study such instabilities. Considering the linear regime by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 William E. East , Nils Siemonsen

Black holes possess trapping regions which lead to intriguing dynamical effects. By properly scattering test fields off a black hole, one can extract energy from it, leading to the growth of the amplitude of the test field in expense of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-30 Kyriakos Destounis

In rotating black hole background surrounded by dark matter, we investigated the super-radiant phenomenon of massive scalar field and its associated instability.Using the method of asymptotic matching, we computed the amplification factor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Quan-Xu Liu , Ya-Peng Hu , Tao-Tao Sui , Yu-Sen An

We study the superradiant instability of massive vector fields, i.e. Proca fields, around spinning black holes in the test field limit. This is motivated by the possibility that observations of astrophysical black holes can probe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-11 William E. East

The black hole superradiance phenomena state that when a scalar wave perturbation is properly scattering off a charged or rotating black hole, the energy of the reflected scalar wave may be amplified. If this amplification process can occur…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Jia-Hui Huang , Mu-Zi Zhang , Tian-Tian Cao , Yi-Feng Zou , Zhan-Feng Mai

Rotating black holes are well known to amplify the perturbing bosonic fields in certain parameter spaces. This phenomenon is popularly known as superradiance. In addition to rotation in the spacetime, charge plays a crucial role in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Rajesh Karmakar

Ultralight bosonic fields are compelling dark-matter candidates and arise in a variety of beyond-Standard-Model scenarios. These fields can tap energy and angular momentum from spinning black holes through superradiant instabilities, during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-04 Richard Brito , Sara Grillo , Paolo Pani

Based on the hyperboloidal framework, we research the dynamical process of charged de Sitter black holes scattered by a charged scalar field. From the linear perturbation analysis, with the coupling strength within a critical interval, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-17 Zhen-Tao He , Qian Chen , Yu Tian , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Hongbao Zhang

A wave impinging on a Kerr black hole can be amplified as it scatters off the hole if certain conditions are satisfied giving rise to superradiant scattering. By placing a mirror around the black hole one can make the system unstable. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Vitor Cardoso , Oscar J. C. Dias , Jose' P. S. Lemos , Shijun Yoshida
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