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Black holes with hair represented by generic fields surrounding the central source of the vacuum Schwarzschild metric are examined under the minimal set of requirements consisting of i) the existence of a well defined event horizon and ii)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-17 J. Ovalle , R. Casadio , E. Contreras , A. Sotomayor

The properties of a remnant black hole can be probed by analyzing the gravitational waves emitted during its ringdown phase. This signal provides a direct test of general relativity in the strong-field regime. In this study, we apply a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-11 Hai-Tian Wang

The detection of gravitational waves from the inspiral of a neutron star or stellar-mass black hole into an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) promises an entirely new look at strong-field gravitational physics. Gravitational waves from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-29 Carl L. Rodriguez , Ilya Mandel , Jonathan R. Gair

The black hole no-hair theorem is traditionally derived from the uniqueness theorems of general relativity. We show that a quantitative form follows from unitarity together with the standard semiclassical assumptions of horizon causality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sudhanva Joshi , Sunil Kumar Mishra

The "no hair" theorem, a key result in General Relativity, states that an isolated black hole is defined by only three parameters: mass, angular momentum, and electric charge; this asymptotic state is reached on a light-crossing time scale.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Maxim Lyutikov , Jonathan C. McKinney

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

Detecting gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries allows us to explore the dynamical, nonlinear regime of general relativity and constrain modifications to it. Some of the gravitational-wave events observed by the LIGO-Virgo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-23 Hector O. Silva , Abhirup Ghosh , Alessandra Buonanno

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

Black-hole spectroscopy aims to infer the fundamental properties of black holes by analysing the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted as they settle into equilibrium. These resonances, known as quasinormal modes (QNMs), decay rapidly,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Pietro Smaniotto , Leonardo Solidoro , Patrik Švančara , Sam Patrick , Maurício Richartz , Carlo F. Barenghi , Ruth Gregory , Silke Weinfurtner

According to the standard view classically black holes carry no hair, whereas quantum hair is at best exponentially weak. We show that suppression of hair is an artifact of the semi-classical treatment and that in the quantum picture hair…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Gia Dvali , Cesar Gomez

Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) uniquely characterize the final black-hole. Till now, only the QNM frequency and damping time are used to test General relativity. In this work, we show explicitly that another property of the QNMs --- their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Soham Bhattacharyya , S. Shankaranarayanan

The imminent detection of gravitational waves will trigger precision tests of gravity through observations of quasinormal ringing of black holes. While General Relativity predicts just two polarizations of gravitational waves, the so-called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-02 Paul D. Lasky , Daniela D. Doneva

Gravitational decoupling can add hair to the black holes by adding extra sources. The quasinormal modes of hairy black hole caused by gravitational decoupling for the massless scalar field, electromagnetic field, and gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-24 Yi Yang , Dong Liu , Ali Övgün , Zheng-Wen Long , Zhaoyi Xu

It is known that a quasinormal mode (QNM) of a remnant black hole dominates a ringdown gravitational wave (GW) in a binary black hole (BBH) merger. To study properties of the QNMs, it is important to determine the time when the QNMs appear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-06 Kazuki Sakai , Ken-ichi Oohara , Hiroyuki Nakano , Masato Kaneyama , Hirotaka Takahashi

Postmerger gravitational wave echoes provide a unique opportunity to probe the near-horizon structure of astrophysical black holes, which may be modified due to nonperturbative quantum gravity phenomena. However, since the waveform is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Di Wu , Pengyuan Gao , Jing Ren , Niayesh Afshordi

For a short hair black hole(BH) which circumvents the "no-short-hair" theorem, it manifests intense hair behavior in the vicinity of the event horizon, accompanied by remarkable quantum effects. These effects may carry important information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

We study the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a family of generalized black bounces interpolating between regular black holes and traversable wormhole solutions according to a single extra parameter $a$. Firstly, working with a generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Albert Duran-Cabacés , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

The coalescences of stellar-mass black-hole binaries through their inspiral, merger, and ringdown are among the most promising sources for ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. If a GW signal is observed with sufficient…

According to the no-hair theorem, astrophysical black holes are uniquely characterized by their masses and spins and are described by the Kerr metric. Several parametric deviations from the Kerr metric have been suggested to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-24 Tim Johannsen , Dimitrios Psaltis

According to the no-hair theorem, all astrophysical black holes are fully described by their masses and spins. This theorem can be tested observationally by measuring (at least) three different multipole moments of the spacetimes of black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Tim Johannsen , Dimitrios Psaltis