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Ultralight scalars have been predicted in a variety of scenarios, and advocated as a possible component of dark matter. These fields can form compact regular structures known as boson stars, or---in the presence of horizons---give rise to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 Miguel C. Ferreira , Caio F. B. Macedo , Vitor Cardoso

Rotating hairy black holes (RHBHs) are axisymmetric equilibrium solutions of the Einstein--Klein--Gordon equations, consisting of a spinning black hole surrounded by a toroidal distribution of complex scalar field. Despite their potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Juan A. Carretero , Philippe Grandclément , Carlos Palenzuela , Marcelo Salgado

In rotating black hole background surrounded by dark matter, we investigated the super-radiant phenomenon of massive scalar field and its associated instability.Using the method of asymptotic matching, we computed the amplification factor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Quan-Xu Liu , Ya-Peng Hu , Tao-Tao Sui , Yu-Sen An

The superradiant instability of black hole space-times has been used to place limits on ultra-light bosonic particles. We show that these limits are model dependent. While the initial growth of the mode is gravitational and thus model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-30 Anubhav Mathur , Surjeet Rajendran , Erwin H. Tanin

Frequency domain studies have recently demonstrated that charged scalar fields exhibit fast growing superradiant instabilities when interacting with charged black holes in a cavity. Here, we present a time domain analysis of the long time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

Black hole superradiance has proven being very valuable in several realms of gravitational physics, and holds a promising discovery potential. In this paper, we consider the superradiant instability of magnetically-charged, rotating black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 David Pereñiguez , Marina de Amicis , Richard Brito , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

The use of modern effective field theory techniques has sparked significant developments in many areas of physics, including the study of gravity. Case in point, such techniques have recently been used to show that binary black holes can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Leong Khim Wong

Based on the hyperboloidal framework, we research the dynamical process of charged de Sitter black holes scattered by a charged scalar field. From the linear perturbation analysis, with the coupling strength within a critical interval, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-17 Zhen-Tao He , Qian Chen , Yu Tian , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Hongbao Zhang

The process of superradiance can extract angular momentum and energy from astrophysical black holes (BHs) to populate gravitationally-bound states with an exponentially large number of light bosons. We analytically calculate superradiant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Masha Baryakhtar , Robert Lasenby , Mae Teo

Ultralight vectors can extract energy and angular momentum from a Kerr black hole (BH) due to superradiant instability, resulting in the formation of a BH-condensate system. In this work, we carefully investigate the evolution of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-10 Yin-Da Guo , Nayun Jia , Shou-Shan Bao , Hong Zhang , Xin Zhang

The instability of rotating Kerr black holes due to massive scalar perturbations is investigated. It is well known that a bosonic field impinging on a Kerr black hole can be amplified as it scatters off the hole. This superradiant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Shahar Hod

Magnetic fields surrounding spinning black holes can confine radiation and trigger superradiant instabilities. To investigate this effect, we perform the first fully-consistent linear analysis of the Ernst spacetime, an exact solution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-29 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani

A Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole (RNBH) enclosed in a cavity is known to be superradiantly unstable to charged scalar perturbations below a critical frequency. Inspired by the emergence of the QCD axion as a prominent dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Bo-Wen Qin , Yu-Peng Zhang

We show the existence of superradiant modes of massive scalar fields propagating in BTZ black holes when certain Robin boundary conditions, which never include the commonly considered Dirichlet boundary conditions, are imposed at spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-30 Claudio Dappiaggi , Hugo R. C. Ferreira , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

One class of competitive candidates for dark matter is ultralight bosons. If they exist, these bosons may form long-lived bosonic clouds surrounding rotating black holes via superradiant instabilities, acting as sources of gravity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Joseph Gais , Mark H. Y. Cheung , Tjonnie G. F. Li

We investigate the quasibound states of charged massive scalar fields in the Kerr-Newman black hole spacetime by using a new approach recently developed, which uses the polynomial conditions of the Heun functions. We calculate the resonant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-24 H. S. Vieira , V. B. Bezerra , C. R. Muniz

We show the instability of a charged massive scalar field in bound states around Kerr-Sen black holes. By matching the near and far region solutions of the radial part in the corresponding Klein-Gordon equation, one can show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-05 Haryanto M. Siahaan

Ultralight vector particles can form evolving condensates around a Kerr black hole (BH) due to superradiant instability. We study the effect of near-horizon reflection on the evolution of this system: by matching three pieces of asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-10 Nayun Jia , Yin-Da Guo , Gui-Rong Liang , Zhan-Feng Mai , Xin Zhang

Light feebly-coupled bosonic particles can efficiently extract the rotational energy of rapidly spinning black holes on sub-astrophysical timescales via a phenomenon known as black hole superradiance. In the case of light axions, the feeble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Samuel J. Witte , Andrew Mummery

Superradiance is a process by which massive bosonic particles can extract energy from spinning black holes, leading to the build up of a "cloud" if the particle has a Compton wavelength comparable to the black hole's Schwarzschild radius.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Zipeng Wang , Thomas Helfer , Katy Clough , Emanuele Berti