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We analytically study the linear response of a near-extremal Kerr black hole to external scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational field perturbations. We show that the energy density, electromagnetic field strength, and tidal force…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Samuel E. Gralla , Aaron Zimmerman , Peter Zimmerman

In this letter, we provide an alternative method to study the area spectrum of certain classes of extremal black holes which have near-horizon geometry as warped AdS. We argue that previous methods which are based on the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-25 Wen-Yu Wen

It was recently shown that the extremal charged black holes in STU supergravity suffer from superradiant instability owing to the existence of the unstable (low-frequency) quasibound states associated with a charged massive scalar field. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Zhan-Feng Mai , Run-Qiu Yang , H. Lü

We study the superradiance instability of charged massive scalar field in the background of Kerr-Newman-anti-de Sitter black hole. By employing the asymptotic matching technique to solve Klein-Gordon equation analytically, the complex parts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-31 Ran Li

It has been proved that the charged stringy black holes are stable under the perturbations of massive charged scalar fields. However, superradiant instability can be generated by adding the mirror-like boundary condition to the composed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-20 Ran Li , Yu Tian , Hongbao Zhang , Junkun Zhao

We present numerical results from three-dimensional evolutions of scalar perturbations of Kerr black holes. Our simulations make use of a high-order accurate multi-block code which naturally allows for fixed adaptivity and smooth inner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ernst Nils Dorband , Emanuele Berti , Peter Diener , Erik Schnetter , Manuel Tiglio

The quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes is unstable against small modifications of the radial potential describing massless perturbations. We study how these small modifications affect the convergence of the quasinormal mode expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Naritaka Oshita , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso

The linearized dynamics of charged massive scalar fields in the near-extremal charged Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter (RNdS) black-hole spacetime is studied analytically. Interestingly, it is proved that the non-asymptotically flat charged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-10 Shahar Hod

We investigate the phenomenology of a Standard Model extension incorporating an inert scalar doublet and a gauged $U(1)_{B-L}$ symmetry. Our analysis reveals regions of the parameter space that support strong first-order phase transitions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-14 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Ujjal Kumar Dey , Shaaban Khalil

In this work we study whether parametrized spherically symmetric black hole solutions in metric theories of gravity can appear to be isospectral when studying perturbations. From a theory agnostic point of view, the test scalar field wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Rotating black holes can support quasi-stationary (unstable) bound-state resonances of massive scalar fields in their exterior regions. These spatially regular scalar configurations are characterized by instability timescales which are much…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Shahar Hod

We show that quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a massive scalar field in Kerr-de Sitter and Myers-Perry black holes exhibit an exceptional line (EL), which is a continuous set of exceptional points (EPs) in parameter space, at which two QNM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Nao Nakamoto , Naritaka Oshita

Within the effective field theory approach to gravity, deviations from general relativity can be systematically described by higher-curvature operators. However, computing the resulting corrections to black hole quasinormal mode spectra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Tom van der Steen , Simon Maenaut , Stef J. B. Husken , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Maxim D. Jockwer , Vitor Cardoso , Thomas Hertog , Tjonnie G. F. Li

Normal modes, quasi-normal modes and super-radiant modes are studied to clarify the total dynamics for complex scalar fields in Kerr anti-de Sitter black hole spacetime. Orthonormal relations and quasi-orthonormal relations are obtained for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-06 Masakatsu Kenmoku

We investigate highly damped quasinormal modes of regular black hole coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. Using the WKB approximation combined with complex-integration technique, we show that the real part of the frequency disappears in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Hidefumi Nomura , Takashi Tamaki

We study the evolution of nonlinear superhorizon perturbations in a universe dominated by a complex scalar field. The analysis is performed adopting the gradient expansion approach, in the constant mean curvature slicing. We derive general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 Luis E. Padilla , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Darío Núñez

We know that Kerr black holes are stable for specific conditions.In this article, we use algebraic methods to prove the stability of the Kerr black hole against certain scalar perturbations. This provides new results for the previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Wen-Xiang Chen , Zi-Yang Huang

Studies of black hole superradiance often focus on the growth of a cloud in isolation, accompanied by the spin-down of the black hole. In this paper, we consider the additional effect of the accretion of matter and angular momentum from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Lam Hui , Y. T. Albert Law , Luca Santoni , Guanhao Sun , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Enrico Trincherini

In this study, we present an analytical investigation of the superradiant scattering of a massive charged conformally coupled scalar field in rotating charged $de~Sitter$ black hole spacetimes within two gravitational theories: General…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 Owen Gartlan , Jacob March , Leo Rodriguez , Shanshan Rodriguez , Yihan Shen

In this work we have used for the first time pseudo-spectral methods to perform numerical simulations of spherically symmetric black hole formations on a Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe. With these methods, the differential equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-07 Albert Escrivà