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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

Here we have shown that asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (GB) theory are unstable under linear perturbations of spacetime in some region of parameters. This (eikonal) instability develops at high…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-17 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

In this lecture, I explain the gauge-invariant formulation for perturbations of background spacetimes with untwisted homologous Einstein fibres, which include lots of practically important spacetimes such as static black holes, static black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-28 Hideo Kodama

In Einstein-Aether gravity, we revisit the issue of linear stabilities of black holes against odd-parity perturbations on a static and spherically symmetric background. In this theory, superluminal propagation is allowed and there is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Shinji Mukohyama , Shinji Tsujikawa , Anzhong Wang

Black holes in $f(R)$-gravity are known to be unstable, especially the rotating ones. In particular, an instability develops that looks like the classical black hole bomb mechanism: the linearized modified Einstein equations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-12 Christian Dioguardi , Massimiliano Rinaldi

The nonlinear stability of Kerr-Newman black holes (KNBHs) is investigated by performing numerical simulations within the full Einstein-Maxwell theory. We take as initial data a KNBH with mass $M$, angular momentum to mass ratio $a$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Miguel Zilhão , Vitor Cardoso , Carlos Herdeiro , Luis Lehner , Ulrich Sperhake

We study the linear stability problem to gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations of the extremal, $ |\mathcal{Q}|=M, $ Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime, as a solution to the Einstein-Maxwell equations. Our work uses and extends the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-18 Marios Antonios Apetroaie

General relativity admits a plethora of exact compact object solutions. The augmentation of Einstein's action with non-minimal coupling terms leads to modified theories with rich structure, which, in turn, provide non-trivial solutions with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-31 Nikos Chatzifotis , Christoforos Vlachos , Kyriakos Destounis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

In AdS space the black hole horizon can be a hypersurface with a positive, zero or negative constant curvature, resulting in different horizon topology. Thermodynamics and stability of black holes in AdS spaces are quite different for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-07 Rong-Gen Cai , Anzhong Wang

We study large D effective theory for D dimensional charged (Anti) de Sitter black holes. Then we show that de Sitter Reissner-Nordstrom black hole becomes unstable against gravitational perturbations at larger charge than certain critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Kentaro Tanabe

For a certain region of the parameter space $\{M,e,\Lambda\}$, the Cauchy horizon of a (charged) black hole residing in de Sitter space is classically stable to gravitational perturbations. This implies that, when left to its own devices,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Dragoljub Markovic , Eric Poisson

We study odd dimensional charged equally rotating black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell theory with/without a cosmological constant by using the large D expansion method, where D is a spacetime dimension. Solving the Einstein-Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-31 Kentaro Tanabe

A common feature of regular black hole spacetimes is the presence of an inner Cauchy horizon. The analogy to the Reissner-Nordstr\"om solution then suggests that these geometries suffer from a mass-inflation effect, rendering the Cauchy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Alfio Bonanno , Antonio Panassiti , Frank Saueressig

We study the stability of new neutral and electrically charged four-dimensional black hole solutions of Einstein's equations with a positive cosmological constant and conformally coupled scalar field. The neutral black holes are always…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Tom J. T. Harper , Paul A. Thomas , Elizabeth Winstanley , Phil M. Young

We show a stability result for the Schwarzschild singularity (inside the black hole region) for the Einstein vacuum equations. The result is proven in the class of polarized axial symmetry, under perturbations of the Schwarzschild data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Spyros Alexakis , Grigorios Fournodavlos

We investigate the stability of a family of spherically symmetric static solutions in vacuum Brans-Dicke theory (with $\omega=0$) recently described by van Putten. Using linear perturbation theory, we find one exponentially growing mode for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Matthew W. Choptuik , Eric W. Hirschmann , Steven Liebling

We study the linear stability of asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes in general relativity in spacetime dimension $d\ge4$. Our approach is an adaptation of the general framework of Hollands and Wald, which gives a stability criterion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Stephen R. Green , Stefan Hollands , Akihiro Ishibashi , Robert M. Wald

In a previous work, we constructed a positive-definite total energy functional for the axially symmetric linear perturbative theory of Kerr black hole spacetimes. That work is based on the dimensional reduction of dynamical axisymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Nishanth Gudapati

We characterize the local instability of pressureless Friedmann spacetimes to radial perturbation at the Big Bang. The analysis is based on a formulation of the Einstein-Euler equations in self-similar variables $(t,\xi)$, with $\xi=r/t$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Christopher Alexander , Blake Temple , Zeke Vogler

Regular black holes with nonsingular cores have been considered in several approaches to quantum gravity, and as agnostic frameworks to address the singularity problem and Hawking's information paradox. While in a recent work we argued that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Francesco Di Filippo , Stefano Liberati , Costantino Pacilio , Matt Visser