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Spinning horizonless compact objects may be unstable against an 'ergoregion instability'. We investigate this mechanism for electromagnetic perturbations of ultracompact Kerr-like objects with a reflecting surface, extending previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-13 Elisa Maggio , Vitor Cardoso , Sam R. Dolan , Paolo Pani

Numerical-relativity simulation is performed for rapidly spinning black holes (BHs) in a higher-dimensional spacetime of special symmetries for the dimensionality $6 \leq d \leq 8$. We find that higher-dimensional BHs, spinning rapidly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Masaru Shibata , Hirotaka Yoshino

Black hole quasinormal modes are known to exhibit spectral instability under ultraviolet perturbations of the effective potential. In the present work, we investigate the sensitivity of the fundamental mode to different types of localized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Ramin G. Daghigh , Michael D. Green , Guan-Ru Li , Jodin C. Morey , Wei-Liang Qian , Stefan J. Randow

We derive a simple set of non-linear, (1+1)-dimensional partial differential equations that describe the dynamical evolution of black strings and branes to leading order in the expansion in the inverse of the number of dimensions D. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Roberto Emparan , Ryotaku Suzuki , Kentaro Tanabe

The inner disc of the local group galaxy M33 appears to be in settled rotational balance, and near IR images reveal a mild, large-scale, two-arm spiral pattern with no strong bar. We have constructed N-body models that match all the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 J. A. Sellwood , Juntai Shen , Zhi Li

We study the effective theory of slowly rotating black holes at the infinite limit of the spacetime dimension D. This large D effective theory is obtained by integrating the Einstein equation with respect to the radial direction. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Kentaro Tanabe

A bosonic field impinging on a rotating black hole can be amplified as it scatters off the hole, a phenomena known as superradiant scattering. If in addition the field has a non-zero rest mass then the mass term effectively works as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-07 Shahar Hod , Oded Hod

Black resonators and geons in global AdS are rapidly rotating, low-energy solutions with a helical Killing field. We study the linear mode stability of equal angular momenta, five-dimensional black resonators and geons under scalar,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Takaaki Ishii , Keiju Murata , Jorge E. Santos , Benson Way

We investigate the stability of black holes in the viable model of $f(R)=R+R^2$ gravity which was known to be the best fit for inflation. These include Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes. Instead of studying the fourth-order linearized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Yun Soo Myung

Motivated by recent results reporting the instability of horizonless objects with stable light rings, we revisit the linearized stability of such structures. In particular, we consider an exterior Kerr spacetime truncated at a surface where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Zhen Zhong , Vitor Cardoso , Elisa Maggio

We investigate axial gravitational perturbations and quasinormal modes of regular black holes supported by an Einasto distribution of matter. Halo matter not only removes the central singularity but also modifies the quasinormal spectrum.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Bekir Can Lütfüoğlu , Javlon Rayimbaev , Sardor Murodov , Mardon Abdullaev , Munisbek Akhmedov

We investigate the thermodynamic stability of neutral black objects with (at least) two angular momenta. We use the quasilocal formalism to compute the grand canonical potential and show that the doubly spinning black ring is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Dumitru Astefanesei , Maria J. Rodriguez , Stefan Theisen

The global nonlinear time-dependent evolution of the inertial-acoustic mode instability in accretion disks surrounding black holes has been investigated. The viscous stress is assumed to be proportional to the gas pressure only, i.e.\,,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Xingming Chen , Ronald E. Taam

We examine bound orbits of particles around singly rotating black rings. We show that there exist stable bound orbits in toroidal spiral shape near the axis of the ring, and also exist stable circular orbits on the axis as special cases.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 Takahisa Igata , Hideki Ishihara , Yohsuke Takamori

We discuss the relation between the superradiance phenomenon and the instability of rotating black holes in higher dimensions. In particular, we point out that the superradiant instability of a massless scalar field around a simply rotating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideo Kodama

We investigate the classical stability of Schwarzschild-AdS black hole in a massive theory of the Einstein-Weyl gravity. It turns out that the linearized Einstein tensor perturbations exhibit unstable modes featuring the Gregory-Laflamme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Yun Soo Myung

We studied the instability of the regularized 4D charged Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet de-Sitter black holes under charged scalar perturbations. The unstable modes satisfy the superradiant condition, but not all modes satisfying the superradiant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Cheng-Yong 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

Most black holes are known to be unstable to emitting Hawking radiation (in asymptotically flat spacetime). If the black holes are non-extreme, they have positive temperature and emit thermally. If they are extremal rotating black holes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sang Pyo Kim , Don N. Page

This paper numerically studies if the stability of a stable black hole is robust against the small perturbation on geometry near its event horizon. As a toy model, it encodes the such perturbation into deformations of Regge-Wheeler…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Zhan-Feng Mai , Run-Qiu Yang