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We study the prospects of detection at terrestrial and space interferometers, as well as at pulsar timing array experiments, of a stochastic gravitational wave background which can be produced in models of axion inflation. This potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-23 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Marco Peloso , Caner Unal

Through the black hole (BH) superradiance, ultralight bosons can form dense clouds around rotating Kerr BHs. Certain ultralight bosons, such as axions and axion-like particles (promising dark matter candidates), naturally possess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Ning Xie , Fa Peng Huang

In this paper, we follow up on the discovery of a new type of solution in the Einstein-Maxwell system coupled minimally to a self-interacting complex scalar field. For sufficiently large gravitational coupling and sufficiently small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

We find the gravitational resonance (quasinormal) modes of the higher dimensional Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrem black holes. The effect on the quasinormal behavior due to the presence of the $\lambda$ term is investigated. The QN…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 R. A. Konoplya

Ultralight scalar fields around spinning black holes can trigger superradiant instabilities, forming a long-lived bosonic condensate outside the horizon. We use numerical solutions of the perturbed field equations and astrophysical models…

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

Black hole superradiance is a powerful probe of ultralight axions. If nature contains a boson with a mass of order $10^{-12}\,$eV, $\textit{mere vacuum fluctuations}$ will lead to its efficient production around spinning stellar mass black…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-18 Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Orion Ning , Nicholas L. Rodd , Jan Schütte-Engel

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

Frequency domain studies have recently demonstrated that charged scalar fields exhibit fast growing superradiant instabilities when interacting with charged black holes in a cavity. Here, we present a time domain analysis of the long time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

This study addressed the scalar field quasinormal ringing behavior of black holes. We investigated scalar field perturbations in Bardeen black hole spacetime in 5-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity. Using the 3rd-order WKB…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-07 Fengmiao Ge , Bingyuan Wei

We consider a pseudoscalar axion-like field coupled to a Chern-Simons gravitational anomaly term. The axion field backreacts on a rotating Kerr black hole background, resulting in modifications in the spacetime. In an attempt to determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Nikos Chatzifotis , Panos Dorlis , Nick E. Mavromatos , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

Here we show that the phenomenon of arbitrarily long-lived quasinormal modes (called quasiresonances) of a massive scalar field in the vicinity of a black hole is not an artifact of the test field approximation, but takes place also when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-26 R. A. Konoplya , Z. Stuchlík , A. Zhidenko

Ultralight bosons with self-interactions, such as axion-like particles, can form astrophysical Bose-Einstein condensates around stars or compact objects, often referred to as gravitational atoms. In this work, we adopt a recently proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Samuel Gómez Gómez , Xisco Jimenez Forteza , Carlos Palenzuela Luque

In the framework of the dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, we study the scalar field perturbations of the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m-Melvin spacetime, which describes a charged black hole permeated by a uniform magnetic field. In the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Shao-Jun Zhang , Bin Wang , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Anzhong Wang

We consider the bound states of the massive scalar field around a rotating black hole immersed in the asymptotically uniform magnetic field. In the regime of slow black hole rotation, the Klein-Gordon equation allows separation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 R. A. Konoplya

Scalar fields with non-trivial kinetic term derived from a nonlinear sigma model are motivated by UV completions of gravity such as string theory. We discuss the $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ and $\mathrm{O}(3)$ sigma models with interacting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Ludovico Machet , Llibert Aresté Saló

We calculate the quasinormal modes of a nonsingular spherically symmetric black hole effective model with holonomy corrections. The model is based on quantum corrections inspired by loop quantum gravity. It is covariant and results in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Douglas M. Gingrich

Axions, encompassing both QCD axions and axion-like particles, can generate loop-induced quadratic couplings to electromagnetic field strength tensors, resulting in oscillatory shifts of the fine-structure constant. Near a Kerr black hole,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Zhaoyu Bai , Vitor Cardoso , Yifan Chen , Tuan Do , Aurélien Hees , Huangyu Xiao , Xiao Xue

Gravitational wave observation has the potential of probing ultralight bosonic fields such as axion. Axion forms a cloud around a rotating black hole (BH) by superradiant instability and should affect the gravitational waveform from binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Takuya Takahashi , Takahiro Tanaka

We describe the full nonlinear development of the superradiant instability for a charged massless scalar field, coupled to general relativity and electromagnetism, in the vicinity of a Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS black hole. The presence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-13 Pablo Bosch , Stephen R. Green , Luis Lehner

We investigate the evolution of a scalar field propagating in Reissner--Nordstr\"{o}m Anti--de Sitter spacetime. Due to the characteristic of spacetime geometry, the radiative tails associated with a massless scalar field propagation have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Wang , C. Molina , E. Abdalla