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Rotating black holes can form dense boson clouds through superradiant instability, making Kerr black holes a powerful probe of ultralight massive bosons. Previous studies of black hole superradiance have often treated bosonic fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Lingyun Fu , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka , Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Hui-Yu Zhu

Numerical analysis of dark matter axion-like cloud in the vicinity of rotating black hole has been performed. The model where axion-like scalar field is non-trivially coupled to Maxwell field is studied in the spacetime of Kerr black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-23 Bartlomiej KIczek , Marek Rogatko

Ultralight bosons can condense to form the so-called bosonic clouds around spinning black holes by superradiance instability. When quantum effects are taken into account, the classical black holes were replaced by exotic compact objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-09 Zhong-Hao Luo , Yun-Long Zhang

Light bosonic fields may suffer an instability around a rotating compact object. This process, known as superradiance, leads to the exponential amplification of the field around a black hole or neutron star, while the spin of the central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Francesca Chadha-Day

The impact of axion-like particles on the light polarization around the horizon of suppermassive black hole (SMBH) is discussed in the light of the latest polarization measurement of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). We investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-14 Soroush Shakeri , Fazlollah Hajkarim

We suppose that linear optical polarization is due to multiple scattering in optically thick magnetized accretion disk around central black hole. The polarization degree is very sensitive to the spin of black hole - for Kerr rotating hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-10 N. A. Silant'ev , M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , T. M. Natsvlishvili

Black hole superradiance provides a window into the dynamics of light scalar fields and their interactions close to a rotating black hole. Due to the rotation of the black hole, the amplitude of the scalar field becomes magnified, leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Stephon Alexander , Gregory Gabadadze , Leah Jenks , Nicolás Yunes

In this study, we examine the phenomenon of photon axion conversion occurring in the spacetime surrounding a black hole. Specifically, we focus on the potential existence of a magnetic field around the supermassive black hole M87*, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Sourov Roy , Pratick Sarkar , Subhadip Sau , Soumitra SenGupta

We find that a \textit{slowly} rotating axion-modified black hole resulting from the backreaction of an axion field on a rotating Kerr black hole can have a \textit{D-shaped} shadow as that for a \textit{highly} counter-rotating Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-24 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Yuan Meng , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Xi-Jing Wang

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

We have investigated the motion for photons in the Kerr black hole spacetime under the axion-photon coupling. The birefringence phenomena arising from the axion-photon coupling can be negligible in the weak coupling approximation because…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-07 Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Ultralight scalar fields such as axions can form clouds around rotating black holes (BHs) by the superradiant instability. It is important to consider the evolution of clouds associated with BH binaries for the detectability of the presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Takuya Takahashi , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka

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

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

An axion cloud surrounding a supermassive black hole can be naturally produced through the superradiance process. Its existence can be examined by the axion induced birefringence effect. It predicts an oscillation of the electric vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-29 Yifan Chen , Chunlong Li , Yosuke Mizuno , Jing Shu , Xiao Xue , Qiang Yuan , Yue Zhao , Zihan Zhou

Under some conditions, light boson fields grow exponentially around a rotating black hole, called the superradiance instability. We discuss effects of nonlinear interactions of the boson on the instability. In particular, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Hajime Fukuda , Kazunori Nakayama

We consider the possibility that astrophysical Black Holes (BHs) can violate the Kerr bound; i.e., they can have angular momentum greater than BH mass, $J > M$. We discuss implications on the BH apparent shape. Even if the bound is violated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-06 Cosimo Bambi , Katherine Freese

Scalar-tensor theories predict fundamental scalar fields of considerable interest in astrophysics and cosmology. We investigate the superradiant instability of scalar clouds around Kerr black holes, showing that stimulated decay generates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Wenyi Wang , Sousuke Noda , Taishi Katsuragawa

Black holes provide a natural laboratory to study particle physics and astrophysics. When black holes are surrounded by matter fields, there will be plenty of phenomena which can have observational consequences, from which we can learn…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Zhen Li

Analytical series expansions for the bending of light in the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole are presented in both the strong and weak deflection regimes. It is critical that these are known in analytical form so further analysis can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-04 Savitri V. Iyer , Edward C. Hansen
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