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Ultralight bosons can induce superradiant instabilities in spinning black holes, tapping their rotational energy to trigger the growth of a bosonic condensate. Possible observational imprints of these boson clouds include (i) direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-05 Richard Brito , Shrobana Ghosh , Enrico Barausse , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Irina Dvorkin , Antoine Klein , Paolo Pani

We analytically investigate the quasinormal modes of the massive scalar field with a nonminimal coupling in the higher-dimensional de Sitter black hole with a single rotation. According to the separated scalar field equation, the boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-25 Bogeun Gwak

The superradiance instability of rotating black holes leads to the formation of an ultralight boson cloud with distinctive observational signatures, making black holes an effective probe of ultralight bosons. However, around black holes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hui-Yu Zhu , Xi Tong , Giorgio Manzoni , Yanjiao Ma

The bell-like ringdown of the gravitational field in the last stage of the merging of massive black holes is now routinely detected on earth by the last generation of gravitational wave detectors. Its spectrum is interpreted as a sum of…

We develop a new perturbation method to study the dynamics of massive tensor fields on extremal and near-extremal static black hole spacetimes in arbitrary dimensions. On such backgrounds, one can classify the components of massive tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Vitor Cardoso , Takahisa Igata , Akihiro Ishibashi , Kodai Ueda

Recently a Hamiltonian formulation for the evolution of the universe dominated by multiple oscillatory scalar fields was developed by the present author and was applied to the investigation of the evolution of cosmological perturbations on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Takashi Hamazaki

Ultralight scalars emerge naturally in several motivated particle physics scenarios and are viable candidates for dark matter. While laboratory detection of such bosons is challenging, their existence in nature can be imprinted on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Majed Khalaf , Eric Kuflik , Alessandro Lenoci , Nicholas Chamberlain Stone

Black hole (BH) superradiance can provide strong constraints on the properties of ultralight bosons (ULBs). While most of the previous work has focused on the theoretical predictions, here we investigate the most suitable statistical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Sebastian Hoof , David J. E. Marsh , Júlia Sisk-Reynés , James H. Matthews , Christopher Reynolds

We study quasinormal modes of a massive scalar field in the background of the regular, quantum-corrected Bonanno-Reuter black hole, which arises from the renormalization group improvement of the Schwarzschild solution within the framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Zainab Malik

Theoretically, bound binaries of massive black holes are expected as the natural outcome of mergers of massive galaxies. From the observational side, however, massive black hole binaries remain elusive. Velocity shifts between narrow and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Roberto Decarli , Massimo Dotti , Michele Fumagalli , Paraskevi Tsalmantza , Carmen Montuori , Elisabeta Lusso , David W. Hogg , Jason X. Prochaska

We study the phenomenology of string bosenova explosions in vector superradiance clouds around spinning black holes, focusing on the observable consequences in gravitational wave detectors and accelerometers. During the growth of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Dawid Brzeminski , Anson Hook , Junwu Huang , Clayton Ristow

Highly spinning Kerr black holes with masses $M = 1 - 100\ M_{\odot}$ are subject to an efficient superradiant instability in the presence of bosons with masses $\mu \sim 10^{-10} - 10^{-12}\ {\rm eV}$. We observe that this matches the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-20 Joseph P. Conlon , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

We numerically investigate the imprints of gravitational radiation-reaction driven changes to a black hole's mass and spin on the corresponding ringdown waveform. We do so by comparing the dynamics of a perturbed black hole evolved with the…

We consider the case of rotating black holes in a dark-matter-emulating theory of gravity called MOG. The latter introduces a gravitational vector field with an associated gravitational charge proportional to the black hole mass and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-14 Michael F. Wondrak , Piero Nicolini , John W. Moffat

So far analysis of the quasinormal spectrum of a massive charged scalar field in the black hole background has been limited by the regime of small \mu M and qQ, where \mu, q (M, Q) are mass and charge of the field (black hole). Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-06 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We consider the possibility that astrophysical Black Holes (BHs) can violate the Kerr bound; i.e., they can have angular momentum greater than BH mass, $J > M$. We discuss implications on the BH apparent shape. Even if the bound is violated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-06 Cosimo Bambi , Katherine Freese

In this paper we analyze the propagation of a charged scalar field in a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole endowed with one anisotropic fluid that can play the role of a cosmological term for certain set of parameters. The evolution of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-02 B. Cuadros-Melgar , R. D. B. Fontana , Jeferson de Oliveira

We study the gravitational-wave (GW) signatures of clouds of ultralight bosons around black holes (BHs) in binary inspirals. These clouds, which are formed via superradiance instabilities for rapidly rotating BHs, produce distinct effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-13 Daniel Baumann , Horng Sheng Chia , Rafael A. Porto

In this paper we consider the massive scalar perturbation on the top of a small spinning-like black hole in context of Einstein-bumblebee modified gravity in order to probe the role of spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Mohsen Khodadi

Astrophysical observations of spinning BHs, which span $ 5M_\odot\lesssim M_{\rm BH}\lesssim 5\times 10^8 M_\odot$, can be used to exclude the existence of certain massive bosons via the superradiance phenomenon. In this work, we explore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 Matthew J. Stott , David J. E. Marsh