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A massive spin-2 field can grow unstably around a black hole, giving rise to a potential probe of the existence of such fields. In this work, we use time-domain evolutions to study such instabilities. Considering the linear regime by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 William E. East , Nils Siemonsen

We demonstrate that the warped AdS3 black hole solutions of Topologically Massive Gravity are classically stable against massive scalar field perturbations by analysing the quasinormal and bound state modes of the scalar field. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-08 Hugo R. C. Ferreira

We calculate analytically the asymptotic form of quasi-normal modes of perturbations of arbitrary spin of a Schwarzschild black hole including first-order corrections. We use the Teukolsky equation which applies to both bosonic and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Suphot Musiri , George Siopsis

Adopting the notation of Teukolsky and Press, we derive the connection relation for asymptotic solutions of the massless Dirac equation on a Kerr background. We show that, unlike bosonic fields, the connection relation for massless Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Koray Düztaş

Massless or massive particles in unstable orbits around a Kerr black hole exhibit exponentially unstable motion when perturbed. They either plunge into the black hole or escape to infinity after making some oscillations around the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-30 Aydin Tavlayan , Bayram Tekin

The resonant mode spectrum of the Kerr-Newman spacetime is presently unknown. These modes, called the quasinormal modes, play a central role in determining the stability of Kerr-Newman black holes and their response to perturbations. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Zachary Mark , Huan Yang , Aaron Zimmerman , Yanbei Chen

We consider solutions to the linear wave equation in the interior region of extremal Kerr black holes. We show that axisymmetric solutions can be extended continuously beyond the Cauchy horizon and moreover that, if we assume suitably fast…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Dejan Gajic

In this second paper of our series started with \cite{Berens2024}, we investigate linearized gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole in a non-asymptotically flat spacetime with (anti-)de Sitter boundary conditions. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Roman Berens , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca

Weak gravitational, electromagnetic, neutrino and scalar fields, considered as perturbations on Kerr background satisfy Teukolsky Master Equation. The two non-trivial equations obtained after separating the variables are the polar angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-14 Roumen S. Borissov , Plamen P. Fiziev

Quantitative versions of mode stability type statements for the wave equation on Kerr-Newman black holes are proven for the full sub-extremal range. The mode stability result on the real axis is then applied to prove integrated local energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-15 Damon Civin

We compute numerically the quasinormal modes of Kerr-Newman black holes in the scalar case, for which the perturbation equations are separable. Then we study different approximations to decouple electromagnetic and gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Emanuele Berti , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We investigate black hole solutions with time-dependent (scalar) hair in scalar-tensor theories. Known exact solutions exist for such theories at the background level, where the metric takes on a standard GR form (e.g. Schwarzschild-de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Sergi Sirera , Johannes Noller

We study linearized perturbations of Myers-Perry black holes in d=7, with two of the three angular momenta set to be equal, and show that instabilities always appear before extremality. Analogous results are expected for all higher odd d.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Oscar J. C. Dias , Ricardo Monteiro , Jorge E. Santos

No Kerr-like exact solution has yet been found in Chern-Simons modified gravity. Intrigued by this absence, we study stationary and axisymmetric metrics that could represent the exterior field of spinning black holes. For the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Grumiller , Nicolas Yunes

Given a characteristic initial value problem with smooth data representing a dynamical event horizon settling down to that of Kerr in the subextremal, strictly rotating range with suitable upper and lower bounds, we prove that a weak null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Jonathan Luk , Jan Sbierski

We construct the metric perturbation in Lorenz gauge for a compact body on a circular equatorial orbit of a rotating black hole (Kerr) spacetime, using a newly-developed method of separation of variables. The metric perturbation is formed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Sam R Dolan , Leanne Durkan , Chris Kavanagh , Barry Wardell

We prove in this paper the linear stability of the celebrated Schwarzschild family of black holes in general relativity: Solutions to the linearisation of the Einstein vacuum equations around a Schwarzschild metric arising from regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-27 Mihalis Dafermos , Gustav Holzegel , Igor Rodnianski

We consider the analytic solutions of massive (bi)gravity which can be written in a simple form using advanced Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates. We analyse the stability of these solutions against radial perturbations. First we recover the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Eugeny Babichev , Alessandro Fabbri

We study the stability of AdS black hole holes rotating in a single two plane for tensor-type gravitational perturbations in $D > 6$ space-time dimensions. First, by an analytic method, we show that there exists no unstable mode when the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-26 Hideo Kodama , R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

Kerr black holes with synchronised hair [arXiv:1403.2757, arXiv:1603.02687] are a counter example to the no hair conjecture, in General Relativity minimally coupled to simple matter fields (with mass $\mu$) obeying all energy conditions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu