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We study the dynamical evolution of superradiant instabilities of rotating black holes for multiple axion fields with comparable masses, motivated by string theory constructions, which typically exhibit a large number of light axions, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Daniel Neves , João G. Rosa

Ultralight bosons, as important candidates of dark matter, can condense around spinning black holes (BHs) to form long-lived ``boson clouds'' due to superradiance instability. The boson-BH system can be observed through gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Rong-Zhen Guo , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

Light bosonic fields may suffer an instability around a rotating compact object. This process, known as superradiance, leads to the exponential amplification of the field around a black hole or neutron star, while the spin of the central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Francesca Chadha-Day

We propose, in (3+1)-dimensional spacetimes, a novel astrophysical source of squeezed graviton states, due to superradiant axionic clouds surrounding rotating (Kerr-type) black holes (BH). The microscopic origin of these axions is diverse,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Panagiotis Dorlis , Nick E. Mavromatos , Sarben Sarkar , Sotirios-Neilos Vlachos

Black holes in binaries with other compact objects can provide natural venues for indirect detection of axions or other ultralight fields. The superradiant instability associated with a rapidly spinning black hole leads to the creation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-10 Michael Kavic , Steven L. Liebling , Matthew Lippert , John H. Simonetti

Superradiant instability turns rotating astrophysical black holes into unique probes of light axions. We consider what happens when a light axion is coupled to a strongly coupled hidden gauge sector. In this case superradiance results in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-13 Sergei Dubovsky , Victor Gorbenko

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

Ultra light axion fields, motivated by the string theory, form a large condensate (axion cloud) around rotating black holes through superradiant instability. Several effects due to the axion cloud, such as the spin-down of black holes and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Hidetoshi Omiya , Takuya Takahashi , Takahiro Tanaka

Gravitational signatures of black hole superradiance are a unique probe of ultralight particles that are weakly-coupled to ordinary matter. The existence of an ultralight boson would lead spinning black holes with size comparable to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-03 Nils Siemonsen , Taillte May , William E. East

An effective energy tensor for gravitational radiation is identified for uniformly expanding flows of the Hawking mass-energy. It appears in an energy conservation law expressing the change in mass due to the energy densities of matter and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Sean A. Hayward

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

Ultralight scalars can extract rotational energy from astrophysical black holes through superradiant instabilities, forming macroscopic boson clouds. This process is most efficient when the Compton wavelength of the boson is comparable to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-17 Emanuele Berti , Richard Brito , Caio F. B. Macedo , Guilherme Raposo , Joao Luis Rosa

We provide details and present additional results on the numerical study of the gravitational-wave emission from the collapse of neutron stars to rotating black holes in three dimensions. More specifically, we concentrate on the advantages…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Luca Baiotti , Ian Hawke , Luciano Rezzolla

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

In the string axiverse scenario, light primordial black holes may spin up due to the Hawking emission of a large number of light (sub-MeV) axions. We show that this may trigger superradiant instabilities associated with a heavier axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-19 Marco Calzà , João G. Rosa , Filipe Serrano

It is shown that both, standard general relativity (GR) and Chern-Simons (CS) gravity, the latter containing chiral gravitational anomaly terms, seed the production of pairs of entangled gravitons in a multi-mode squeezed state. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Panagiotis Dorlis , Nick E. Mavromatos , Sarben Sarkar , Sotirios-Neilos Vlachos

Both ultralight dark matter and exploring the quantum nature of black holes are all topics of great interest in gravitational wave astronomy at present. The superradiant instability allows an exotic compact object (ECO) to be surrounded by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Rong-Zhen Guo , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

Under some conditions, light boson fields grow exponentially around a rotating black hole, called the superradiance instability. We discuss effects of nonlinear interactions of the boson on the instability. In particular, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Hajime Fukuda , Kazunori Nakayama

It is a well-known fact that compact gravitating objects admit bound state configurations for massive bosonic fields. In this work we describe a new class of superradiant instabilities of axion bound states in neutron star magnetospheres.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-29 Francesca V. Day , Jamie I. McDonald

By exploiting the extreme environment of the black hole (BH) as a potential place for axion-photon interaction, we use an axion-producing model of the magnetized plasma to study the shadow of an asymptotically flat rotating BH immersed into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 Mohsen Khodadi