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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

It has been suggested that the spectrum of quasinormal modes of rotating black holes is unstable against additional potential terms in the perturbation equation, as the operator associated with the equation is non-self-adjoint. We point out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 Huan Yang , Jun Zhang

Black holes described by the Kerr metric can have a theoretical maximum dimensionless spin parameter of $a_\bullet = 1$, but several effects may limit the maximum spin parameter in astrophysical systems. We perform general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Tegan A. Thomas , Angelo Ricarte , Cora Prather , Hyerin Cho

We study extreme mass ratio inspirals occurring in modified gravity, for which the system is modeled by a small compact object with scalar charge spiraling into a supermassive Kerr black hole. Besides the tensorial gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-28 Hong Guo , Yunqi Liu , Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Wei-Liang Qian , Rui-Hong Yue

We study analytically the Klein-Gordon wave equation for stationary massive scalar fields linearly coupled to spinning Kerr black holes. In particular, using the WKB approximation, we derive a compact formula for the discrete spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-21 Shahar Hod

We study time evolutions of charged scalar perturbations on the background of a charged hairy black hole, in which the perturbations can be governed by a double-peak effective potential. By extracting quasinormal modes from the waveform of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

It is reported that Kerr-Newman and Kerr-Sen black holes are unstable to perturbations of charged massive scalar field. In this paper, we study analytically the complex frequencies which characterize charged massive scalar fields in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-30 Canisius Bernard

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

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

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

So far analysis of the quasinormal spectrum of a massive charged scalar field in the black hole background has been limited by the regime of small \mu M and qQ, where \mu, q (M, Q) are mass and charge of the field (black hole). Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-06 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

Superradiant scattering of linear spin $s=0,\pm 1,\pm 2$ fields on Kerr black hole background is investigated in the time domain by integrating numerically the homogeneous Teukolsky master equation. The applied numerical setup has already…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-26 Károly Zoltán Csukás , István Rácz

We consider the Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations for a spherically symmetric scalar field scattering off a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in asymptotically flat spacetime. The equations are solved numerically using a hyperboloidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-20 Olaf Baake , Oliver Rinne

An exact Kerr-like solution has been obtained recently in Einstein-bumblebee gravity model where Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken. In this paper, we investigate the superradiant instability of the Kerr-like black hole under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Rui Jiang , Rui-Hui Lin , Xiang-Hua Zhai

Confined scalar fields, either by a mass term or by a mirror-like boundary condition, have unstable modes in the background of a Kerr black hole. Assuming a time dependence as $e^{-i\omega t}$, the growth time-scale of these unstable modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-11 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Juan Carlos Degollado , Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson

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 numerically investigate the superradiant amplification effect of a charged scalar filed in the scattering experiment and the black hole bomb model in a charged black-bounce spacetime. Due to the shallowing effect on the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Zhiming Shuai , Xiangdong Zhang , Gui-Rong Liang

We present a numerical relativity study of the accretion properties of a non-spinning black hole in a cosmology driven by a scalar field. The simulations are carried out with a modified moving-puncture gauge condition suitable for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Jake Doherty , Miguel Gracia-Linares , Pablo Laguna

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

We perform accurate calculations of the energy-, momentum-, and charge-emission rates of a charged scalar field in the background of the Kerr-Newman black hole at the range of parameters for which the effect is not negligibly small and, at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko