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We study the quasinormal modes for scalar, axial and radial perturbations of massive static spherically symmetric wormholes supported by a phantom scalar field, calculating the modes directly and employing the WKB approximation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Xiao Yan Chew , Jutta Kunz

The intriguing superradiant amplification phenomenon allows an orbiting scalar field to extract rotational energy from a spinning Kerr black hole. Interestingly, the energy extraction rate can grow exponentially in time if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-14 Shahar Hod

Rotating black holes can form dense boson clouds through superradiant instability, making Kerr black holes a powerful probe of ultralight massive bosons. Previous studies of black hole superradiance have often treated bosonic fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Lingyun Fu , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka , Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Hui-Yu Zhu

The superradiant stability of a Kerr-Newman black hole and charged massive scalar perturbation is investigated. We treat the black hole as a background geometry and study the equation of motion of the scalar perturbation. From the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Jun-Huai Xu , Zi-Han Zheng , Ming-Jian Luo , Jia-Hui Huang

We analytically investigate scalar superradiant scattering in the rotating dyonic Kerr-Sen black hole of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion theory. Starting from the separable Klein-Gordon equation for a massive neutral scalar field, we work in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 S. Katewongveerachart , D. Senjaya

Massive bosonic fields in the background of a Kerr black hole can either trigger superradiant instabilities (black-hole bombs) or form equilibrium configurations corresponding to pure bound states, known as stationary scalar clouds. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-10 Marzena Ciszak , Francesco Marino

We consider the bound states of the massive scalar field around a rotating black hole immersed in the asymptotically uniform magnetic field. In the regime of slow black hole rotation, the Klein-Gordon equation allows separation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 R. A. Konoplya

It is known that a massive charged scalar field can trigger a superradiant instability in the background of a Kerr-Newman black hole. In this paper, we present a numerical study of such an instability by using the continued fraction method.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Yang Huang , Dao-Jun Liu , Xiang-hua Zhai , Xin-zhou Li

We show that the horizon instability of the extremal Kerr black hole is associated with a singular branch point in the Green function at the superradiant bound frequency. We study generic initial data supported away from the horizon and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-07 Marc Casals , Samuel E. Gralla , Peter Zimmerman

In this work we explore a numerical technique, based on the spherical harmonic decomposition and the discretization of the radial coordinate through \v{C}eby\v{s}\"ev polynomial interpolation, for the computation of quasi-bound states of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-28 Giuseppe Lingetti

The discovery of supermassive black holes with masses $\gtrsim 10^9 M_\odot$ at redshifts $z\gtrsim 10$ challenges conventional formation scenarios based on baryonic accretion and mergers within the first few hundred million years. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Barranco , Juan Carlos Degollado , Darío Nuñez

The fundamental resonances of near-extremal Kerr black holes due to massive scalar perturbations are derived {\it analytically}. We show that there exists a critical mass parameter, $\mu_c$, below which increasing the mass $\mu$ of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Shahar Hod

The statistical response of a Kerr black hole to incoming quantum radiation has heretofore been studied by the methods of maximum entropy or quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Neither approach pretends to take into account the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Jacob D. Bekenstein

We calculate the spectrum of quasinormal modes of slowly rotating Kerr-Newman black holes. Using a perturbative double expansion method, second order in rotation and first order in non-radial perturbations, we obtain the system of equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-20 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo

We investigate the quasibound states of charged massive scalar fields in the Kerr-Newman black hole spacetime by using a new approach recently developed, which uses the polynomial conditions of the Heun functions. We calculate the resonant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-24 H. S. Vieira , V. B. Bezerra , C. R. Muniz

The differential equations governing the late-time ring-down of the perturbations of the Kerr metric, the Teukolsky Angular Equation and the Teukolsky Radial Equation, can be solved analytically in terms of confluent Heun functions. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-24 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

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

We investigate the quasinormal modes of massive scalar fields in the background of five-dimensional Myers-Perry black holes. In particular, we explore the case for Myers-Perry black holes with two arbitrary rotation parameters. Since the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-20 Zi-Yang Huang , Jia-Hui Huang

The perturbations of the Kerr metric and the miracle of their exact solutions play a critical role in the comparison of predictions of general relativity with astrophysical observations of compact massive objects. The differential equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

This paper studies the quasinormal mode spectrum of the scalar perturbation on the background of the rotating accelerating black holes. The quasinormal frequency $\omega$ and the separation constant $\lambda$ are calculated using two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-09 Wei Xiong , Peng-Cheng Li