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The black hole in the center of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, has the largest mass-to-distance ratio among all known black holes in the Universe. This property makes Sgr A* the optimal target for testing the gravitational no-hair theorem. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 Dimitrios Psaltis , Norbert Wex , Michael Kramer

Perturbed Kerr black holes emit gravitational radiation, which (for the practical purposes of gravitational-wave astronomy) consists of a superposition of damped sinusoids termed quasi-normal modes. The frequencies and time-constants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ioannis Kamaretsos , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We examine the ability to test the black hole no-hair theorem at the 10% level in this decade using the binary black hole in OJ287. In the test we constrain the value of the dimensionless parameter q that relates the scaled quadrupole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. J. Valtonen , S. Mikkola , H. J. Lehto , A. Gopakumar , R. Hudec , J. Polednikova

In a recent letter [N. V. Krishnendu et al., PRL 119, 091101 (2017)] we explored the possibility of probing the binary black hole nature of coalescing compact binaries, by measuring their spin-induced multipole moments, observed in advanced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-13 N. V. Krishnendu , Chandra Kant Mishra , K. G. Arun

The No Hair theorem in classical general relativity predicts that rotating black holes are specified by the Kerr metric, which is uniquely identified by the mass and spin. However, as a pioneering study beyond general relativity, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 Zhen Li

The "no-hair" theorem can, in principle, be tested at the center of the Milky Way by measuring the spin and the quadrupole moment of Sgr A$^*$ with the orbital precession of S-stars, measured over their full periods. Contrary to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-04 Yael Alush , Nicholas Chamberlain Stone

In this paper, the optical appearance of static and spherically symmetric hairy black holes is studied under the standard Einstein-Maxwell theory considering the p-power Yang-Mills term. During the research process, the specific case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Zuting Luo , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

Test of the no-hair theorem is the primary target with gravitational waves from binary black holes. In this Letter, we analyze gravitational-wave data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detection of binary black-hole mergers using the PSI_FD model,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-06 Song Li , Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

We show that the integral method used to prove the no-hair theorem for Black Holes (BH's) in spherically symmetric and static spacetimes within the framework of general relativity with matter composed by a complex-valued scalar-field does…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Gustavo Garcia , Marcelo Salgado

No-hair theorems are uniqueness results constraining the form of the metric of black holes in general relativity. These theorems are typically formulated under idealized assumptions, involving a mixture of local (regularity of the horizon)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Carlos Barceló , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay , Gerardo García-Moreno

The successful observation of M87 supermassive black hole by the Black Hole Event Horizon Telescope(EHT) provides a very good opportunity to study the theory of gravity. In this work, we obtain the exact solution for the short hair black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

Thanks to the release of the extraordinary EHT image of shadow attributed to the M87* supermassive black hole (SMBH), we have a novel window to assess the validity of fundamental physics in the strong-field regime. Motivated by this, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Mohsen Khodadi , Gaetano Lambiase , David F. Mota

For a distorted black hole (BH), its ringdown waveform is a superposition of quasi-normal modes (QNMs). In general relativity (GR), the lower order QNM frequencies and damping rates can be well approximated by a polynomial of BH's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Ke Wang

We propose a novel method to test the binary black hole (BBH) nature of compact binaries detectable by gravitational wave (GW) interferometers and hence constrain the parameter space of other exotic compact objects. The spirit of the test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 N. V. Krishnendu , K. G. Arun , Chandra Kant Mishra

Scalar-tensor theories are a compelling alternative to general relativity and one of the most accepted extensions of Einstein's theory. Black holes in these theories have no hair, but could grow "wigs" supported by time-dependent boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-26 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Michael Horbatsch , Ulrich Sperhake

In light of the current (and future) gravitational wave detections, more sensitive tests of general relativity can be devised. Black hole spectroscopy has long been proposed as a way to test the no-hair theorem, that is, how closely an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-06 Iara Ota , Cecilia Chirenti

The no-hair theorem, which postulates that all black holes can be completely characterized by only three externally observable parameters: mass, electric charge, and angular momentum, sets constraints on both the maximal angular momentum…

General Physics · Physics 2014-01-02 C Sivaram , Kenath Arun

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary black holes offer the best probes of the relativistic, strong-field regime of gravity. Gravitational radiation, in the leading order is quadrupolar. However, non-quadrupole (higher-order) modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-15 Tousif Islam , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Abhirup Ghosh , Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration recently unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole M87*, which exhibited a ring of angular diameter $\theta_{d}=42 \pm 3 \mu as$, a circularity deviation $\Delta C \leq 0.1$, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-17 Misba Afrin , Sushant G. Ghosh

Multipole moments are related to the physical properties of compact gravitating objects; therefore, understanding their structure is useful in accessing the nature of compact objects. We look into gravitational wave observables for black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 Anirban Saha