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The mass and the spin of accreting and jetted black holes, at the center of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), can be probed by analyzing their electromagnetic spectra. For this purpose, we use the Spin-Modified Fundamental Plane of black hole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-17 Caner Unal , Fabio Pacucci , Abraham Loeb

Ultralight bosons are attractive dark-matter candidates and appear in various scenarios beyond standard model. They can induce superradiant instabilities around spinning black holes (BHs), extracting the energy and angular momentum from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 Rong-Zhen Guo , Yang Jiang , Qing-Guo Huang

Massive bosons, such as light scalars and vector bosons, can lead to instabilities of rotating black holes by the superradiance effect, which extracts energy and angular momentum from rapidly-rotating black holes effectively. This process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-03 Lei Zu , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

Spinning black holes could produce ultralight particles via the superradiance instability. These particles form a dense cloud around the host black hole, introducing new opportunities for the detection of ultralight new physics. When the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Hyungjin Kim , Alessandro Lenoci

Binary systems of massive black holes will be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) throughout the entire Universe. Observations of gravitational waves from this class of sources will have important repercussions on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alberto Vecchio

Based on the hyperboloidal framework, we research the dynamical process of charged de Sitter black holes scattered by a charged scalar field. From the linear perturbation analysis, with the coupling strength within a critical interval, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-17 Zhen-Tao He , Qian Chen , Yu Tian , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Hongbao Zhang

Black hole (BH) superradiance can provide strong constraints on the properties of ultralight bosons (ULBs). While most of the previous work has focused on the theoretical predictions, here we investigate the most suitable statistical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Sebastian Hoof , David J. E. Marsh , Júlia Sisk-Reynés , James H. Matthews , Christopher Reynolds

Ultralight bosons are a proposed solution to outstanding problems in cosmology and particle physics: they provide a dark-matter candidate while potentially explaining the strong charge-parity problem. If they exist, ultralight bosons can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Ethan Payne , Ling Sun , Kyle Kremer , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

In the presence of massive bosonic degrees of freedom, rotational superradiance can trigger an instability that spins down black holes. This leads to peculiar gravitational-wave signatures and distribution in the spin-mass plane, which in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani , Tien-Tien Yu

We show that the existence of clouds of ultralight particles surrounding black holes during their cosmological history as members of a binary system can leave a measurable imprint on the distribution of masses and orbital eccentricities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-18 Mateja Bošković , Matthias Koschnitzke , Rafael A. Porto

\textit{Superradiance} can trigger the formation of an ultra-light boson cloud around a spinning black hole. Once formed, the boson cloud is expected to emit a nearly periodic, long-duration, gravitational-wave signal. For boson masses in…

Ultralight bosons can form large clouds around stellar-mass black holes via the superradiance instability. Through processes such as annihilation, these bosons can source continuous gravitational wave signals with frequencies within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Sylvia J. Zhu , Masha Baryakhtar , Maria Alessandra Papa , Daichi Tsuna , Norita Kawanaka , Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein

Black hole (BH) spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful approach to extract spacetime information from gravitational wave (GW) observed signals. Yet, quasinormal mode (QNM) spectral instability under high wave-number perturbations has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 José Luis Jaramillo , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Lamis Al Sheikh

The instability of rotating Kerr black holes due to massive scalar perturbations is investigated. It is well known that a bosonic field impinging on a Kerr black hole can be amplified as it scatters off the hole. This superradiant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Shahar Hod

Rapidly rotating black holes are known to develop instabilities in the presence of a sufficiently light boson, a process which becomes efficient when the boson's Compton wavelength is roughly the size of the black hole. This phenomenon,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Diego Blas , Samuel J. Witte

In classical general relativity astrophysical black holes can be affected by the superradiant instability when gravity is minimally coupled to a light bosonic field. The majority of phenomenological studies have focused on the idealized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-14 Giuseppe Ficarra

We study the phenomenology of string bosenova explosions in vector superradiance clouds around spinning black holes, focusing on the observable consequences in gravitational wave detectors and accelerometers. During the growth of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Dawid Brzeminski , Anson Hook , Junwu Huang , Clayton Ristow

In rotating black hole background surrounded by dark matter, we investigated the super-radiant phenomenon of massive scalar field and its associated instability.Using the method of asymptotic matching, we computed the amplification factor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Quan-Xu Liu , Ya-Peng Hu , Tao-Tao Sui , Yu-Sen An

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

Black holes typically inhabit highly dynamical galactic environments and are frequently permeated by accretion media. The inevitable scattering of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational waves off rotating and charged black holes provides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Giacomo Mascher , Kyriakos Destounis , Kostas D. Kokkotas