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Considerable attention has recently focused on gravity theories obtained by extending general relativity with additional scalar, vector, or tensor degrees of freedom. In this paper, we show that the black-hole solutions of these theories…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dimitrios Psaltis , Delphine Perrodin , Keith R. Dienes , Irina Mocioiu

We study the dynamical Chern-Simons gravity as an effective quantum field theory, and discuss a broad range of its parameter space where the theory is valid. Within that validity range, we show that slowly rotating black holes acquire novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Stephon Alexander , Gregory Gabadadze , Leah Jenks , Nicolás Yunes

Future electromagnetic observations of black holes may allow us to test General Relativity in the strong-field regime. Such tests, however, require knowledge of rotating black hole solutions in modified gravity theories, a class of which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-25 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes

Observations of the black hole shadow of supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, allow us to study the properties of black holes and the nature of strong-field gravity. According to the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes

Using gravitational wave observations to search for deviations from general relativity in the strong-gravity regime has become an important research direction. Chern Simons (CS) gravity is one of the most frequently studied parity-violating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Manu Srivastava , Yanbei Chen , S. Shankaranarayanan

According to the asymptotically safe gravity, black holes may have characteristics different from those described according to general relativity if the running of the gravitational constant coupling happens at low energies. Particularly,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Luigi Foschini , Alberto Vecchiato , Alfio Bonanno

We investigate the spacetime of a slowly rotating black hole in the Chern-Simons modified gravity. The long range feature of frame-dragging effect under the Chern-Simon gravity well explains the flat rotation curves of galaxies which is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kohkichi Konno , Toyoki Matsuyama , Yasuhiro Asano , Satoshi Tanda

The slow rotation of Kerr-NUT spacetime is explored by taking into account the linear form of rotation and NUT parameters in the dynamical Chern-Simon gravity theory, which can be formulated from a scalar field describing the background. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 G. G. L. Nashed , Kazuharu Bamba

Near-future, space-based, radio- and gravitational-wave interferometry missions will enable us to rigorously test whether the Kerr solution of general relativity accurately describes astrophysical black holes, or if it requires some kind of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Pablo A. Cano , Alexander Deich , Nicolás Yunes

Chern-Simons gravity rotating Kerr-type black hole solutions are revisited from the point of view of their scalarization, namely examining the back reaction of pseudoscalar axion fields on the rotating geometry. To lowest order in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Nikos Chatzifotis , Panos Dorlis , Nick E. Mavromatos , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

Spinning black holes in dynamical Einstein-Chern-Simons gravity are constructed by directly solving the field equations, without resorting to any perturbative expansion. This model is obtained by adding to the Einstein-Hilbert action a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-24 Terence Delsate , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

Dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity has been attracting plenty of attentions due to the fact that it is a parity-violating modified theory of gravity that corresponds to a well-posed effective field theory in weak coupling approximation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-09 Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Xi-Jing Wang , Jian-Pin Wu

Black holes have a unique sensitivity to the presence of ultralight matter fields or modifications of the underlying theory of gravity. In the present paper we combine both features by studying an ultralight, dynamical scalar field that is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Chloe Richards , Alexandru Dima , Helvi Witek

Observations of the continuum spectrum emitted by accretion disks around black holes allows us to infer their properties, including possibly whether black holes are described by the Kerr metric. Some modified gravity theories do not admit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-22 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes

In the present paper, we construct spontaneously scalarized rotating black hole solutions in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity by following the scalar field evolution in the decoupling limit. For the range of parameters where the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a parity-violating modification of general relativity, is regarded as a low-energy effective theory arising from string theory. Gravitational waves provide a powerful probe for testing its predictions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinyi Che , Xiangyu Lyu , Changfu Shi

We produce the first numerical relativity binary black hole gravitational waveforms in a higher-curvature theory beyond general relativity. In particular, we study head-on collisions of binary black holes in order-reduced dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-20 Maria Okounkova , Leo C. Stein , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

[abridged] Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity is a 4D effective theory that descends both from string theory and loop quantum gravity, and that corrects the Einstein-Hilbert action by adding the product of a scalar field and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Carlos F. Sopuerta , Nicolas Yunes

We study black holes in three-dimensional Chern-Simons gravity with a negative cosmological constant. In particular, we identify how the Chern-Simons interactions between a scattering particle and a black hole project the particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Jan Troost , Asato Tsuchiya

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for space-based detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). EMRIs consist of a compact stellar object orbiting around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-05 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta