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We revisit the modelling of black hole ringdown beyond General Relativity (GR), emphasizing the limitations of approaches that rely solely on shifted quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies. Starting from modified Teukolsky equations in such…

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We calculate the quasinormal modes (QNM) frequencies of a test massless scalar field and an electromagnetic field around static black holes in $f(T)$ gravity. Focusing on quadratic $f(T)$ modifications, which is a good approximation for…

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After black holes collide, the remnant settles to a stationary state by emitting gravitational waves. Once non-linearities subside, these ringdown waves are dominated by exponentially-damped sinusoids, or quasinormal modes. We develop a…

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This study delves into the existence of dark matter around supermassive black holes in galactic cores using a novel gravitational model. By analyzing gravitational waves emitted during the ringdown phase of black holes under different field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-14 Jie Liang , Dong Liu , Hao-Jie Lin , Zheng-Wen Long

The possibility of testing gravity theories with the help of gravitational wave detections has become an interesting arena of recent research. In this paper, we follow this direction by investigating the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-30 Che-Yu Chen , Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Pisin Chen

This paper aims to explore the quasinormal modes (QNMs) and effective potential profiles of massless and rotating BTZ black holes within the frameworks of $f(\mathcal{R})$ and Ricci-Inverse ($\mathcal{RI}$) modified gravity theories, which,…

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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…

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The rapid advancement of gravitational wave astronomy in recent years has paved the way for the burgeoning development of black hole spectroscopy, which enhances the possibility of testing black holes by their quasinormal modes (QNMs). In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Che-Yu Chen , Yu-Hsien Kung , Pisin Chen

Quasinormal modes are eigenmodes of dissipative systems. Perturbations of classical gravitational backgrounds involving black holes or branes naturally lead to quasinormal modes. The analysis and classification of the quasinormal spectra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Andrei O. Starinets

We compute scalar quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies in rotating black hole solutions of the most general class of higher-derivative gravity theories, to quartic order in the curvature, that reduce to General Relativity for weak fields and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-15 Pablo A. Cano , Kwinten Fransen , Thomas Hertog

Quasinormal modes of perturbed black holes have recently gained much interest because of their tight relations with the gravitational wave signals emitted during the post-merger phase of a binary black hole coalescence. One of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Che-Yu Chen , Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Pisin Chen

We consider general perturbations of a Schwarzschild black holes in the context of f(R) gravity. A reduced set of frame independent master variables are determined, which obey two closed wave equations - one for the transverse, trace-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-19 Anne Marie Nzioki , Rituparno Goswami , Peter K. S. Dunsby

The characteristic oscillations of black holes, as described by their quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum, play a fundamental role in testing general relativity with gravitational waves. The so-called parametrized QNM framework was introduced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Spyros Thomopoulos , Sebastian H. Völkel , Harald P. Pfeiffer

We study the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a family of generalized black bounces interpolating between regular black holes and traversable wormhole solutions according to a single extra parameter $a$. Firstly, working with a generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Albert Duran-Cabacés , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

Hairy black holes by gravitational decoupling (GD) are probed to derive the gravitational waveform produced by perturbation theory applied to these compact objects. Using the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations governing the metric…

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In the context of the general effort to model black hole dynamics, and in particular their return-to-equilibrium through quasi-normal modes, it is crucial to understand how much test-field perturbations deviate from physical perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-30 Alexandre Arbey , Etera R. Livine , Clara Montagnon

Black hole perturbation theory is a useful approach to study interactions between black holes and fundamental fields. A particular class of black hole solutions arising out of modification of Einstein's general theory of relativity are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-25 Davood Mahdavian Yekta , Majid Karimabadi , S. A. Alavi

We investigate quasinormal modes (QNMs) of scalar, electromagnetic, and axial gravitational perturbations in slowly rotating Kalb-Ramond (KR) black holes, where an antisymmetric tensor field induces spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Weike Deng , Wentao Liu , Kui Xiao , Jiliang Jing

Recently, an exact rotating black hole solution in a parity-violating theory of gravity was obtained via a conformal transformation of the Kerr solution in general relativity, with parity-violating effects encoded in the conformal factor.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Hiroaki W. H. Tahara , Hayato Motohashi , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

Black-hole spectroscopy aims to infer the fundamental properties of black holes by analysing the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted as they settle into equilibrium. These resonances, known as quasinormal modes (QNMs), decay rapidly,…

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