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A co-rotating bosonic field interacting with a spinning Kerr black hole can extract rotational energy and angular momentum from the hole. This intriguing phenomenon is known as superradiant scattering. As pointed out by Press and Teukolsky,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Shahar Hod

We consider the accretion of dark energy by constituent black holes in binary formations during the present epoch of the Universe. In the context of an observationally consistent dark energy model, we evaluate the growth of black holes'…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Arnab Sarkar , Amna Ali , K. Rajesh Nayak , A. S. Majumdar

The scattering of charged massive scalar waves by Kerr-Newman black holes, with incidence along the equatorial plane, is investigated in this work. The differential scattering cross section is computed using the partial wave method, with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Qian Li , Qianchuan Wang , Junji Jia

Superradiance is a radiation enhancement process that involves dissipative systems. With a 60 year-old history, superradiance has played a prominent role in optics, quantum mechanics and especially in relativity and astrophysics. In General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-11 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani

For dark matter to be detectable with gravitational waves from binary black holes, it must reach higher than average densities in their vicinity. In the case of light (wave-like) dark matter, the density of dark matter between the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-29 Josu C. Aurrekoetxea , Katy Clough , Jamie Bamber , Pedro G. Ferreira

We derive the classical gravitational radiation from an aligned spin binary black hole on \textit{closed} orbits, using a dictionary built from the 5-point QFT scattering amplitude of two massive particles exchanging and emitting a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-10 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Nils Siemonsen

The speed gain of a test mass from taking a gravitational slingshot around a celestial object (scattering centre) increases with the latter's speed and compactness (stronger deflection of the mass' trajectory becomes possible without it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-28 Fan Zhang

A particle scattered off by a rotating black hole can be amplified when the system is in the superradiant regime. If the system is surrounded by a mirror which reflects the particle back to the black hole the whole system forms a black-hole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Jong-Phil Lee

Several physical systems can be treated as a scattering process, and, for these processes, a natural observed quantity arises: the ratio between the reflected and incident intensities, known as the reflection coefficient. This dissertation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-15 Bruno Arderucio

We show the existence of superradiant modes of massive scalar fields propagating in BTZ black holes when certain Robin boundary conditions, which never include the commonly considered Dirichlet boundary conditions, are imposed at spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-30 Claudio Dappiaggi , Hugo R. C. Ferreira , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

Superradiance has been studied quite extensively in the context of static (charged) and rotating black hole spacetime. In this paper, we report for the first time that for a minimally coupled scalar field, the absorption cross-section of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Rajesh Karmakar , Debaprasad Maity

The defining feature of a classical black hole is being a perfect absorber. Any evidence showing otherwise would indicate a departure from the standard black-hole picture. Energy and angular momentum absorption by the horizon of a black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-12 Sayak Datta , Richard Brito , Sukanta Bose , Paolo Pani , Scott A. Hughes

We consider the evolution of a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) surrounded by a retrograde accretion disk. Assuming the disk is exactly in the binary plane and transfers energy and angular momentum to the binary via direct gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik

We present a new type of observation relating the gravitational wave emission of supermassive black hole mergers to their electromagnetic counterparts. This dual emission involves variability of a relativistic jet arising from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-03 M. Tápai , L. Á. Gergely , Z. Keresztes , P. J. Wiita , Gopal-Krishna , P. L. Biermann

We show that the magnetic dipole and gravitational radiation emitted by a pulsar can undergo superradiant scattering off a spinning black hole companion. We find that the relative amount of superradiant modes in the radiation depends on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-14 Joao G. Rosa

Here we discuss the possibility of super-massive binary black hole (SMBBH) detection, using the shifts of the broad lines emitted from a binary system. We perform a number of simulations of shapes and shifts of $H_{\beta}$ lines emitted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Sasa Simic , Luka C. Popovic

Supermassive black hole binary mergers generate a stochastic gravitational wave background detectable by pulsar timing arrays. While the amplitude of this background is subject to significant uncertainties, the frequency dependence is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Jeff A. Dror , Benjamin V. Lehmann , Hiren H. Patel , Stefano Profumo

We study superradiant scattering for a charged scalar field subject to Robin (mixed) boundary conditions on a charged BTZ black hole background. Scalar field modes having a real frequency do not exhibit superradiant scattering, independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-16 Sebastian Konewko , Elizabeth Winstanley

In the last few years before merger, supermassive black hole binaries will rapidly inspiral and precess in a magnetic field imposed by a surrounding circumbinary disk. Multiple simulations suggest this relative motion will convert some of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. O'Shaughnessy , D. L. Kaplan , A. Sesana , A. Kamble

We investigate the interplaying effects of black hole scalarization and superradiance in the context of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar model, with the scalar field possessing electric charge. Restricted to spherical symmetry, our linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-18 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Xinmiao Wang