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According to the no-hair theorem, astrophysical black holes are uniquely described by their masses and spins. An observational test of the no-hair theorem can be performed by measuring at least three different multipole moments of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Tim Johannsen , Dimitrios Psaltis

The Kerr spacetime of spinning black holes is one of the most intriguing predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity. The special role this spacetime plays in the theory of gravity is encapsulated in the no-hair theorem, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-02 Dimitrios Psaltis , Tim Johannsen

In the realm of spacetimes governed by Einstein's general relativity and containing only Maxwell's electromagnetic field, stationary black holes are fully characterized by their mass, electric or magnetic charge, and angular momentum -- a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Romain Gervalle

This study delves into the existence of dark matter around supermassive black holes in galactic cores using a novel gravitational model. By analyzing gravitational waves emitted during the ringdown phase of black holes under different field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-14 Jie Liang , Dong Liu , Hao-Jie Lin , Zheng-Wen Long

The classical no-hair theorem states that stationary black holes in general relativity can be completely described by only a small set of global parameters. Within this framework, no additional geometric structures are expected to persist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Yiru Zhang , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a black hole (BH) are the eigen modes describing the dissipative oscillation of various fields in that spacetime, which can be intrinsically produced by the linear perturbation theory. With the discovery of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-02 Yuqian Zhao , Bing Sun , Zhan-Feng Mai , Zhoujian Cao

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 study the dynamical stability of hairy dyonic black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar gravity system against the massless scalar field perturbation. We numerically obtain the corresponding quasinormal modes (QNMs) using the series…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-14 Supragyan Priyadarshinee

The ringdown phase of gravitational waves emitted by a perturbed black hole is described by a superposition of exponentially decaying sinusoidal modes, called quasinormal modes (QNMs), whose frequencies depend only on the property of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Che-Yu Chen , Petr Kotlařík

Gravitational waves provide direct information about the nature of spacetime and the existence of black holes. The remnant of a binary black hole merger emits gravitational waves in the form of quasinormal modes, whose spectrum is known as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-18 Iara Ota

If a class of stars orbits the central black hole in our galaxy in short period (~ 0.1 year), high eccentricity (~ 0.9) orbits, they will experience precessions of their orbital planes induced by both relativistic frame-dragging and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Clifford M. Will

The ringdown is the late part of the post-merger signature emitted during the coalescence of two black holes and comprises of a superposition of quasi-normal-modes. Within general relativity, because of the no-hair theorems, the frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Swetha Bhagwat , Miriam Cabero , Collin D. Capano , Badri Krishnan , Duncan A. Brown

According to the general-relativistic no-hair theorem, astrophysical black holes depend only on their masses and spins and are uniquely described by the Kerr metric. Mass and spin are the first two multipole moments of the Kerr spacetime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-27 Tim Johannsen

The ringdown of a perturbed black hole contains fundamental information about space-time in the form of Quasi Normal Modes (QNM). Modifications to general relativity, or extended profiles of other fields surrounding the black hole, so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Jamie Bamber , Oliver J. Tattersall , Katy Clough , Pedro G. Ferreira

After black holes collide, the remnant settles to a stationary state by emitting gravitational waves. Once non-linearities subside, these ringdown waves are dominated by exponentially-damped sinusoids, or quasinormal modes. We develop a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-05 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Nicolas Yunes

Quasinormal modes of perturbed black holes have recently gained much interest because of their tight relations with the gravitational wave signals emitted during the post-merger phase of a binary black hole coalescence. One of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Che-Yu Chen , Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Pisin Chen

One of the most triumphant predictions of the theory if general relativity was the recent LIGO-Virgo detection of gravitational wave (GW) signals produced in binary black hole (BH) mergers. However, it is suggested that exotic compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-15 Qingwen Wang , Naritaka Oshita , Niayesh Afshordi

The black hole uniqueness and the no-hair theorems imply that the quasinormal spectrum of any astrophysical black hole is determined solely by its mass and spin. The countably infinite number of quasinormal modes of a Kerr black hole are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-31 Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Swetha Bhagwat , Paolo Pani , Valeria Ferrari

Gravitational wave echoes offer a unique probe of the near-horizon structure of astrophysical black holes, beyond the standard ''black hole spectroscopy''. Theoretical waveform predictions, however, remain uncertain, motivating robust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Di Wu , Xi-Li Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang , Jing Ren

The Kerr nature of a compact-object-coalescence remnant can be unveiled by observing multiple quasi-normal modes (QNMs) in the post-merger signal. Current methods to achieve this goal rely on matching the data with a superposition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Richard Brito , Alessandra Buonanno , Vivien Raymond