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An Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI), which corresponds to a small compact object inspirals around a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy, is one of the most important sources for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yi-Xiang Wei , Xian-Long Zhu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

Independently from the formation mechanism of primordial black holes in the early Universe, their generation is accompanied by a ringdown phase during which they relax to a stationary configuration and gravitational waves under the form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Valerio De Luca , Antonio J. Iovino , Antonio Riotto

We investigate the effects of the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravitational trace anomaly on the circular motion of test particles around black holes (BHs) and its implications for quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in various theoretical models.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Rupam Jyoti Borah , Umananda Dev Goswami

We investigate gravitational wave emission from an oscillating star modeled in a static Weyl background using a modulated waveform ansatz. First, we revisit the Weyl metric and obtain a Bessel-type curvature solution with regularity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-07 Abraão J. S. Capistrano , Newton M. S. Chávez , Víctor A. M. León

Acoustic black holes are very interesting non-gravitational objects which can be described by the geometrical formalism of General Relativity. These models can be useful to experimentally test effects otherwise undetectable, as for example…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Fagnocchi

Wormholes are exotic compact objects characterized by the absence of essential singularities and horizons, acting as slender bridges linking two distinct regions of spacetime. Despite their theoretical significance, they remain however…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Ciro De Simone , Vittorio De Falco , Salvatore Capozziello

We show that the integration constant in the vacuum Schwarzschild solution has the unique value, alpha_0=0, accordingly Black Holes too have the same unique value of mass M0=0. Therefore the so-called Black Holes Candidates (BHC) cannot be…

General Physics · Physics 2009-07-16 Abhas Mitra

We investigate the imprints of chaos in gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals configuration, where a stellar massive object, confined in a harmonic potential, orbits a supermassive Schwarzschild-like black hole embedded in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Surajit Das , Surojit Dalui , Bum-Hoon Lee , Yi-Fu Cai

Black hole echo is an important observable that can help us better understand gravitational theories. We present that the non-linear electrodynamic black holes can admit the multi-peak effective potential for the scalar perturbations, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Aofei Sang , Ming Zhang , Shao-Wen Wei , Jie Jiang

We perform the first nonlinear and self-consistent study of the merger and ringdown of a black hole mimicking object with stable light rings. To that end, we numerically solve the full Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations governing the head-on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Nils Siemonsen

We show that gravitational-wave astronomy has the potential to inform us on quantum aspects of black holes. Based on Bekenstein's quantization, we find that black hole area discretization could impart observable imprints to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-09 Ivan Agullo , Vitor Cardoso , Adrian del Rio , Michele Maggiore , Jorge Pullin

Searches for gravitational wave echoes in the aftermath of mergers and/or formation of astrophysical black holes have recently opened a novel and surprising window into the quantum nature of their horizons. Similar to astro- and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-16 Naritaka Oshita , Daichi Tsuna , Niayesh Afshordi

The general parametrization of spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat black-hole spacetimes in arbitrary metric theories of gravity was suggested in [3]. The parametrization is based on the continued fraction expansion in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

In this article, we investigate the orbital dynamics and quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) surrounding a static, spherically symmetric geometry of an Einstein-nonlinear Maxwell-Yukawa (ENMY) black hole (BH). Using the Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Tehreem Zahra , Oreeda Shabbir , Bushra Majeed , Mubasher Jamil , Javlon Rayimbaev , Abubakir Shermatov

Gravitational waves generated by moving sources in Schwarzschild spacetime can be decomposed into three principal components: quasinormal modes, tail, and prompt response. While the first two have been extensively studied, a systematic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Sizheng Ma

Multiple potential wells for massive test particles, allowing distinct families of bound orbits to coexist, are a characteristic feature of certain exotic compact objects beyond general relativity. Taking the dyonic black hole as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Chao-Hui Wang , Shao-Wen Wei , Tao Zhu , Yu-Xiao Liu

Periodic orbits exhibiting zoom-whirl behavior have become attractive topics for studying particle dynamics and gravitational wave emission in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). This study systematically investigates periodic orbits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Guo-He Li , Chen-Kai Qiao , Jun Tao

We develop a search method for gravitational ringing of black holes. The gravitational ringing is due to complex frequency modes called the quasi-normal modes that are excited when a black hole geometry is perturbed. The detection of it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Hiroyuki Nakano , Hirotaka Takahashi , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Misao Sasaki

Some of the extensions to general relativity and to the Standard Model of particle physics predict families of hypothetical compact objects, collectively known as exotic compact objects (ECOs). This category can be defined to encompass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-05 Héctor R. Olivares-Sánchez , Prashant Kocherlakota , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

We analyze a rotating regular black hole spacetime with an asymptotically Minkowski core, focusing on extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRIs) where a stellar-mass object inspirals a supermassive black hole under consideration. Such spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 Shailesh Kumar , Tieguang Zi