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Ringdown gravitational waves of compact object binaries observed by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors encapsulate rich information to understand remnant objects after the merger and to test general relativity in the strong field. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Norichika Sago , Soichiro Isoyama , Hiroyuki Nakano

We study the quasi-normal modes (QNM) of electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole in an asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. Some of the electromagnetic modes do not oscillate, they only decay,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Vitor Cardoso , Jose' P. S. Lemos

In this work, we have calculated the polar gravitational quasinormal modes for a quantum corrected black hole model, that arises in the context of Loop Quantum Gravity, known as Self-Dual Black Hole. In this way, we have calculated the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-09 M. B. Cruz , F. A. Brito , C. A. S. Silva

Perturbations of black holes, initially considered in the context of possible observations of astrophysical effects, have been studied for the past ten years in string theory, brane-world models and quantum gravity. Through the famous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-29 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

The ''ringdown'' stage of gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole mergers, mainly consisting of a superposition of quasinormal modes emitted by the merger remnant, is a key tool to test fundamental physics and to probe black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Francesco Crescimbeni , Gregorio Carullo , Emanuele Berti , Giada Caneva Santoro , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Paolo Pani

We present a short review of the analytical aspects of recent progress in the study of black hole spectral instability and its potential observational consequences. This topic, inspired by earlier foundational works, has attracted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Shui-Fa Shen , Guan-Ru Li , Ramin G. Daghigh , Jodin C. Morey , Michael D. Green , Wei-Liang Qian , Rui-Hong Yue

In modified theories of gravity, the potentials appearing in the Schr\"odinger-like equations that describe perturbations of non-rotating black holes are also modified. In this paper we ask: can these modifications be constrained with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-15 Sebastian H. Völkel , Nicola Franchini , Enrico Barausse , Emanuele Berti

We study the polar quasinormal modes of spontaneously scalarized black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory. In previous works we showed that a set of nodeless solutions of the fundamental branch of the model studied in [1] are stable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-05 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Daniela D. Doneva , Sarah Kahlen , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

The excitation of a black hole by infalling matter or radiation has been studied for a long time, mostly in linear perturbation theory. In this paper we study numerically the response of a Schwarzschild black hole to an incoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Jörg Frauendiener , Chris Stevens

In this paper we study the perturbations of the charged, dilaton black hole, described by the solution of the low energy limit of the superstring action found by Garfinkle, Horowitz and Strominger. We compute the complex frequencies of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Valeria Ferrari , Massimo Pauri , Federico Piazza

We present, in closed analytic form, a general stationary, slowly rotating black hole, which is solution to a large class of alternative theories of gravity in four dimensions. In these theories, the Einstein-Hilbert action is supplemented…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-27 Paolo Pani , Caio F. B. Macedo , Luis C. B. Crispino , Vitor Cardoso

We investigate the quasinormal modes (QNMs) associated with intrinsic metric-dilaton coupled perturbations of the Mandal-Sengupta-Wadia (MSW) black hole in two-dimensional string theory. Through suitable field redefinitions, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Wen-Hao Bian , Zhu-Fang Cui

Understanding the physical significance and spectral stability of black hole quasinormal modes is fundamental to high-precision spectroscopy with future gravitational wave detectors. Inspired by Mashhoon's idea of relating quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Sebastian H. Völkel

We compute the spectrum of linearized gravitational excitations of black holes with substantial angular momentum in the presence of higher-derivative corrections to general relativity. We do so perturbatively to leading order in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Pablo A. Cano , Kwinten Fransen , Thomas Hertog , Simon Maenaut

Recently, we proposed an enhancement of the Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli formalism for first-order perturbations about a Schwarzschild background that includes first-order corrections due to the background black-hole spin. Using this formalism, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-17 Hiroyuki Nakano , Manuela Campanelli , Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

The quasinormal modes (QNMs) associated with the decay of Dirac field perturbation around a Schwarzschild black hole is investigated by using continued fraction and Hill-determinant approaches. It is shown that the fundamental quasinormal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jiliang Jing

We derive a geometrical version of the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations, which allows us to study gravitational perturbations on an arbitrary spherically symmetric slicing of a Schwarzschild black hole. We explain how to obtain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

Black holes provide a natural laboratory to study particle physics and astrophysics. When black holes are surrounded by matter fields, there will be plenty of phenomena which can have observational consequences, from which we can learn…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Zhen Li

The spectrum of the quasinormal modes of the gravitational waves emitted during the ringdown phase following the merger of two black holes is of primary importance in gravitational astronomy. However, the spectrum is extremely sensitive to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 A. Ianniccari , A. J. Iovino , A. Kehagias , P. Pani , G. Perna , D. Perrone , A. Riotto

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