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We study how black hole superradiance appears in string microscopic models of rotating black holes. In order to disentangle superradiance from finite-temperature effects, we consider an extremal, rotating D1-D5-P black hole that has an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Oscar J. C. Dias , Roberto Emparan , Alessandro Maccarrone

Results are presented from general relativistic numerical computations of primordial black-hole formation during the radiation-dominated era of the universe. Growing-mode perturbations are specified within the linear regime and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ilia Musco , John C. Miller , Luciano Rezzolla , ;

Stellar-mass binaries evolving in the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) may be common in the universe, either in active galactic nuclei or in other astrophysical environments. Here, we study in detail the resonant excitation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 João S. Santos , Vitor Cardoso , Alexandru Lupsasca , José Natário , Maarten van de Meent

Recently massless test scalar field perturbations of the holonomy corrected black holes [Z. Moreira et. al. Phys. Rev. D 107 (2023) 10, 104016] were studied in order to estimate quantum corrections to the quasinormal spectrum of a black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-15 S. V. Bolokhov

Ultralight vector particles can form evolving condensates around a Kerr black hole (BH) due to superradiant instability. We study the effect of near-horizon reflection on the evolution of this system: by matching three pieces of asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-10 Nayun Jia , Yin-Da Guo , Gui-Rong Liang , Zhan-Feng Mai , Xin Zhang

We have studied perturbations of scalar and spinor field in the background of three dimensional G\"{o}del black hole. The wave equations are shown to be exactly solvable in terms of hypergeometric functions. The quasinormal modes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-12 Ran Li

We study extreme mass-ratio binary systems in which a stellar mass compact object spirals into a supermassive black hole surrounded by a scalar cloud. Scalar clouds can form through superradiant instabilities of massive scalar fields around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-27 Richard Brito , Shreya Shah

Continuum spectrum emitted by the accretion disk around quasars hold a wealth of information regarding the strong gravitational field produced by the massive central object. Such strong gravity regime is often expected to exhibit deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-30 Indrani Banerjee , Sumanta Chakraborty , Soumitra SenGupta

We calculate the quasinormal modes of a nonsingular spherically symmetric black hole effective model with holonomy corrections. The model is based on quantum corrections inspired by loop quantum gravity. It is covariant and results in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Douglas M. Gingrich

We study the static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions for a non-minimally coupled multi-scalar theory. We find numerical solutions for values of the scalar fields when a certain constraint on the maximal charge is satisfied.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ben M. Leith , Alex B. Nielsen

We revisit the peculiar electromagnetic quasinormal mode spectrum of an asymptotically anti-de Sitter Schwarzschild black hole. Recent numerical calculations have shown that some quasinormal mode frequencies become purely overdamped at some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-21 Sean Fortuna , Ian Vega

Kerr Sen black holes possess stretchon parameters and hidden conformal symmetries. The superradiant stability and steady state resonance of such black holes warrant further investigation and form the primary motivation for this study. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Wen-Xiang Chen

Light bosonic degrees of freedom have become a serious candidate for dark matter. The evolution of these fields around curved spacetimes is poorly understood but is expected to display interesting effects. In particular, the interaction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-20 Helvi Witek , Vitor Cardoso , Akihiro Ishibashi , Ulrich Sperhake

We study the formation of superradiant bound states for massive scalar fields in five-dimensional rotating black string geometries with a non-vanishing Kaluza-Klein momentum along the compact direction. Even though all Kaluza-Klein modes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Joao G. Rosa

We evaluate quasinormal modes of massive scalar field of the Ernst spacetime, an exact solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations describing a black hole immersed in uniform magnetic field $B$. It is known that the quasinormal spectrum for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Chen Wu , Renli Xu

In the present work we compute the spectrum of quasinormal frequencies of four-dimensional charged black holes in Einstein-power-Maxwell theory. In particular we study scalar perturbations adopting the 6th order WKB approximation. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Angel Rincon

In a study of the quasinormal mode frequencies of nearly extremal black holes, we pointed out a bifurcation of the mode spectrum into modes with finite decay and modes with vanishing decay in the extremal limit. We provided analytic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-29 Aaron Zimmerman , Huan Yang , Fan Zhang , David A. Nichols , Emanuele Berti , Yanbei Chen

The $C$-metric is a boost-symmetric spacetime solution to the vacuum Einstein field equations which describes black holes that are uniformly accelerated under the tension of a cosmic string. Only recently the thermodynamics of accelerating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-24 Kyriakos Destounis , Giacomo Mascher , Kostas D. Kokkotas

In the present study, we investigate the quasibound states, scalar cloud and superradiance of relativistic scalar fields bound to a rotating black hole in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion theory (Kerr-EMDA). We present the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-16 David Senjaya , Supakchai Ponglertsakul

We present an analytical study of superradiant instability of rotating asymptotically G\"{o}del black hole (Kerr-G\"{o}del black hole) in five-dimensional minimal supergravity theory. By employing the matched asymptotic expansion method to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-24 Ran Li