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We show that the gravitational waves generated by the perturbations of general relativistic black holes can be considered as a direct probe of the existence of dark sector interactions. Working within the framework of Horndeski theory and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-30 Reginald Christian Bernardo

A pair of wave equations for the electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations of the charged Kerr black hole are derived. The perturbed Einstein-Maxwell equations in a new gauge are employed in the derivation. The wave equations refer to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Zoltán Perjés , Mátyás Vasúth

The analysis of gravitino fields in curved spacetimes is usually carried out using the Newman-Penrose formalism. In this paper we consider a more direct approach with eigenspinor-vectors on spheres, to separate out the angular parts of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-16 C. -H. Chen , H. T. Cho , A. S. Cornell , G. Harmsen , Wade Naylor

We investigate how GWs pass through the spacetime of a Schwarzschild black hole using time-domain numerical simulations. Our work is based on the perturbed 3+1 Einstein's equations up to the linear order. We show explicitly that our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-29 Jian-hua He , Zhenyu Wu

Black holes and gravitational waves are consequences of the nonlinear character of the Einstein equations. Yet, the remarkable properties of General Relativity point to the existence of other effects. Here we uncover new nonlinear facets of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Vitor Cardoso , Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Ulrich Sperhake , Furkan Tuncer

In this paper, we investigate the gravitational collapse to form the black hole in the acceleratingly expanding universe in the frame of Einstein--Gauss-Bonnet theory having two scalar fields and we study the propagation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Shin'ichi Nojiri , G. G. L. Nashed

We investigate a slowly rotating black hole solution in a novel Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory, which is prompted by the classification of general Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theories. The gyromagnetic ratio of this black hole is calculated,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Jianhui Qiu

The five dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a negative cosmological constant becomes, for a special value of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant, a Chern-Simons (CS) theory of gravity. In this work we discuss the properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Yves Brihaye , Eugen Radu

The use of physical phenomena in the strong-field regime has become a primarily methodology for probing quantum-corrected gravity. This paper investigates periodic orbits, gravitational waves, and accretion disk radiation for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Shilong Huang , Jiawei Chen , Jinsong Yang

We construct gravitational atoms including self-gravity, obtaining solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a scalar field surrounding a non-rotating black hole in a quasi-stationary approximation. We resolve the region near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Darío Núñez , Olivier Sarbach

In a seminal work, Hawking showed that natural states for free quantum matter fields on classical spacetimes that solve the spherically symmetric vacuum Einstein equations are KMS states of non-vanishing temperature. Although Hawking's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-01 Thomas Thiemann

We study slowly rotating black hole solutions in the Einstein-Bel-Robinson gravity (EBR) in four dimensions. At the leading order in the rotation parameter, the only modification with respect to the static case is the appearance of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Seyed Naseh Sajadi , Supakchai Ponglertsakul , Robert B. Mann

In this paper, we derive the generic solution of the Newman-Penrose equations in the Newman-Unti gauge with vanishing curvature tensor. The obtained solutions are the vacua of the gravitational theory which are connected to the derivations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Pujian Mao

Gravitational shockwaves are simple exact solutions of Einstein equations representing the fields of ultrarelativistic sources and idealized gravitational waves (shocks). Historically, much work has focused on shockwaves in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Finnian Gray , David Kubiznak , Taillte May , Sydney Timmerman , Erickson Tjoa

We study propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic and gravitational waves in the gravitational field of a rotating black hole. Due to the interaction of the spin of the field with the spacetime curvature, the standard geometric optics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Valeri P. Frolov , Alex Koek

The modeling of gravitational wave ringdown has traditionally relied on linear perturbation theory, which mainly describes the late-time behavior of a perturbed black hole after a binary merger. However, the need for more accurate ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Macarena Lagos

We propose a new approach toward reconstructing the late-time near-horizon geometry of merging binary black holes, and toward computing gravitational-wave echoes from exotic compact objects. A binary black-hole merger spacetime can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-06 Sizheng Ma , Qingwen Wang , Nils Deppe , François Hébert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Jordan Moxon , William Throwe , Nils L. Vu , Mark A. Scheel , Yanbei Chen

We explore the classical stability of topological black holes in d-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime, where the horizon is an Einstein manifold of negative curvature. According to the gauge invariant formalism of Ishibashi and Kodama,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Danny Birmingham , Susan Mokhtari

The formation of spacetime singularities is a quite common phenomenon in General Relativity and it is regulated by specific theorems. It is widely believed that spacetime singularities do not exist in Nature, but that they represent a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-08 Cosimo Bambi , Leonardo Modesto

In this article we analyze the predictions of the Einstein gravitation theory (EGT) on black holes in the framework of the Schwarzschild geometry that is defined in the vacuum around a spherically symmetric mass distribution, without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-04 M. Cattani