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We present a simple formula for the effective ringdown frequencies of the gravitational-wave signal of a precessing black-hole binary in the co-precessing frame. This formula requires only knowledge of the quasi-normal mode frequencies of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Eleanor Hamilton , Lionel London , Mark Hannam

We study numerically in the time domain the linearized gravitational waves emitted from a plunge into a nearly extremal Kerr black hole by solving the inhomogeneous Teukolsky equation. We consider spinning black holes for which the specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna

Gravitational waves travel through the distributions of matter and dark energy during propagation. For this reason, gravitational waves emitted from binary compact objects serve as a useful tool especially to probe the nature of dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Kei-ichiro Kubota , Shun Arai , Shinji Mukohyama

We investigate bound and periodic timelike geodesics and their associated gravitational-wave (GW) signatures in the spacetime of a regular black hole arising in asymptotically safe gravity (ASG). The geometry incorporates quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Arun Kumar , Abolhassan Mohammadi , Sushant G. Ghosh

Black hole `spectroscopy', i.e. the identification of quasinormal mode frequencies via gravitational wave observations, is a powerful technique for testing the general relativistic nature of black holes. In theories of gravity beyond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Hector O. Silva , Kostas Glampedakis

In this study, we explore the possibility of testing the no-hair theorem with gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries in the frequency band of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Based on its sensitivity, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Chantal Pitte , Quentin Baghi , Marc Besançon , Antoine Petiteau

Among the expected sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the capture of solar-mass compact stars by massive black holes residing in galactic centers. We construct a simple model for such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Poisson

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

In this paper we describe a model for the $(\ell=2, m=0)$ spherical harmonic mode of the gravitational wave signal emitted by the coalescence of binary black holes, in particular, spin-aligned systems. This mode can be viewed as consisting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Maria Rosselló-Sastre , Sascha Husa , Sayantani Bera

Scalar-tensor theories are promising dark energy models. A promising scalar-tensor theory, called Horndeski-like gravity, is coming from the application of the Horndeski gravity in string theory and cosmology that takes into account two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Dani de Boe , Fabiano F. Santos , Jackson Levi Said

In this work we study whether parametrized spherically symmetric black hole solutions in metric theories of gravity can appear to be isospectral when studying perturbations. From a theory agnostic point of view, the test scalar field wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Usually alternative theories of gravity imply deviations from the well-known Kerr space-time, a model of an isolated black hole in General Relativity. In the dominant order, the deformed Kerr metric, free of closed time-like curves outside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-06 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

The quasinormal mode spectrum of gravitational waves emitted during the black hole ringdown relaxation phase, following the merger of a black hole binary, is a crucial target of gravitational wave astronomy. By considering causality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

Although spinning black holes are shown to be stable in vacuum in general relativity, there exists exotic mechanisms that can convert the spin energy of black holes into gravitational waves. Such waves may be very weak in amplitude, since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 Xi-Long Fan , Yan-Bei Chen

The no-hair conjecture in General Relativity (GR) states that a Kerr black hole (BH) is completely described by its mass and spin. As a consequence, the complex quasi-normal-mode (QNM) frequencies of a binary-black-hole (BBH) ringdown can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-23 Abhirup Ghosh , Richard Brito , Alessandra Buonanno

Ringdown gravitational waves of compact object binaries observed by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors encapsulate rich information to understand remnant objects after the merger and to test general relativity in the strong field. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Norichika Sago , Soichiro Isoyama , Hiroyuki Nakano

Black hole spectroscopy is an important pillar when studying gravitational waves from black holes and enables tests of general relativity. Most of the gravitational-wave signals observed over the last decade originate from binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Oliver Steppohn , Sebastian H. Völkel , Tim Dietrich

We examine the behavior of non-commutative Schwarzschild black holes in the context of massive gravity. According to the investigation, corresponding to a minimal mass, the black hole can have two horizons, one horizon, or no horizon at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Piyali Bhar , Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Supakchai Ponglertsakul

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary black holes offer the best probes of the relativistic, strong-field regime of gravity. Gravitational radiation, in the leading order is quadrupolar. However, non-quadrupole (higher-order) modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-15 Tousif Islam , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Abhirup Ghosh , Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith , B. S. Sathyaprakash

In this work we construct a static and spherically symmetric black hole geometry supported by a family of generic mono-parametric sources thorough the Gravitational Decoupling. The parameter characterizing the matter sector can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 R. Avalos , P. Bargueño , E. Contreras