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It has long been known that, in higher-dimensional general relativity, there are black hole solutions with an arbitrarily large angular momentum for a fixed mass. We examine the geometry of the event horizon of such ultra-spinning black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Roberto Emparan , Robert C. Myers

Using black-hole inequalities and the increase of the horizon's areas, we show that there are arbitrarily small electro-vacuum perturbations of the standard initial data of the extreme Reissner-Nordstrom black-hole that, (by contradiction),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Martin Reiris

A massive vector boson field in the vicinity of a rotating black hole is known to suffer an instability, due to the exponential amplification of (co-rotating, low-frequency) bound states by black hole superradiance. Here we calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-12 Sam R. Dolan

We solve the problem of expressing the Weyl scalars $\psi $ that describe gravitational perturbations of a Kerr black hole in terms of Cauchy data. To do so we use geometrical identities (like the Gauss-Codazzi relations) as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Manuela Campanelli , Carlos O. Lousto , John Baker , Gaurav Khanna , Jorge Pullin

We investigate in detail the mechanism of superradiance to render the instability of Kerr-de Sitter black holes in scalar-tensor gravity. Our results provide more clues to examine the scalar-tensor gravity in the astrophysical black holes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-06 Cheng-Yong Zhang , Shao-Jun Zhang , Bin Wang

We present a novel theoretical framework for analysing the stability of rotating black hole spacetimes through the conformal properties of the Weyl tensor. By introducing a new conformal invariant constructed from the electric and magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Nader Haddad

We know that Kerr black holes are stable for specific conditions.In this article, we use algebraic methods to prove the stability of the Kerr black hole against certain scalar perturbations. This provides new results for the previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Wen-Xiang Chen , Zi-Yang Huang

We study massive scalar field perturbation on Kerr black holes in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity by performing a $(2+1)$-dimensional simulation. Object pictures of the wave dynamics in time domain are obtained. The tachyonic instability is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-28 Shao-Jun Zhang

Scalar and gravitational perturbations on Kerr-anti-de Sitter (Kerr-AdS) black holes have been addressed in the literature and have been shown to exhibit a rich phenomenology. In this paper we complete the analysis of bosonic fields on this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-06 Mengjie Wang , Carlos Herdeiro

Analyzing exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations in the Kerr-Schild formalism we show that black hole horizon is instable with respect to electromagnetic excitations. Contrary to perturbative smooth harmonic solutions, the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-18 Alexander Burinskii

We prove boundedness and polynomial decay statements for solutions of the Teukolsky system for electromagnetic-gravitational perturbations of a Kerr-Newman exterior background, with parameters satisfying $|a|, |Q| \ll M$. The identification…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Elena Giorgi

We study scalar test-field perturbations on top of a Kerr--black-bounce background, i.e. a family of rotating regular black holes and/or rotating traversable wormholes that can mimic Kerr black holes. We compute the quasi-normal modes for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-30 Edgardo Franzin , Stefano Liberati , Jacopo Mazza , Ramit Dey , Sumanta Chakraborty

We prove the precise asymptotics of the spin $-2$ Teukolsky field in the interior and along the Cauchy horizon of a subextremal Kerr black hole. Together with the oscillatory blow-up asymptotics of the spin $+2$ Teukolsky field proven in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 Sebastian Gurriaran

We test the stability of various wormholes and black holes supported by a scalar field with a negative kinetic term. The general axial perturbations and the monopole type of polar perturbations are considered in the linear approximation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-15 K. A. Bronnikov , R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We present the first example of a linearized gravitational instability of an asymptotically flat vacuum black hole. We study perturbations of a Myers-Perry black hole with equal angular momenta in an odd number of dimensions. We find no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 Oscar J. C. Dias , Pau Figueras , Ricardo Monteiro , Harvey S. Reall , Jorge E. Santos

Spinning horizonless compact objects may be unstable against an 'ergoregion instability'. We investigate this mechanism for electromagnetic perturbations of ultracompact Kerr-like objects with a reflecting surface, extending previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-13 Elisa Maggio , Vitor Cardoso , Sam R. Dolan , Paolo Pani

The evolution of small perturbations around rotating black branes and strings, which are low energy solutions of string theory, are investigated. For simplicity, we concentrate on the Kerr solution times transverse flat extra dimensions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-05 Vitor Cardoso , José P. S. Lemos

We study the scalar perturbation on the background of a Kerr black hole in the dynamical Chern-Simons modified gravity with a quadratic coupling between the scalar field and Chern-Simons term. In particular, the late-time tails of scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-22 Yuan-Xing Gao , Yang Huang , Dao-Jun Liu

We show that the $k$-self-similar naked singularity solutions of the spherically symmetric Einstein--Scalar field system are unstable to black hole formation under perturbations that are totally supported in the interior region, in all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Junbin Li

We investigate the instability of the massive scalar field in the vicinity of a rotating black hole. The instability arises from amplification caused by the classical superradiance effect. The instability affects bound states: solutions to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sam R. Dolan