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Light feebly-coupled bosonic particles can efficiently extract the rotational energy of rapidly spinning black holes on sub-astrophysical timescales via a phenomenon known as black hole superradiance. In the case of light axions, the feeble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Samuel J. Witte , Andrew Mummery

Current- and next-generation gravitational-wave observatories may reveal new, ultralight bosons. Through the superradiance process, these theoretical particle candidates can form clouds around astrophysical black holes and result in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-27 Spencer Collaviti , Ling Sun , Marios Galanis , Masha Baryakhtar

We investigate black hole superradiance evolution of the interacting multiple fields. We consider a model of two scalar fields interacting with a cubic coupling, and study the superradiant evolution of the cloud. We demonstrate that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Zhi-Qing Zhu , Yun-Song Piao , Jun Zhang

We study the superradiant scattering of gravitational waves by a nearly extremal black hole (dimensionless spin $a=0.99$) by numerically solving the full Einstein field equations, thus including backreaction effects. This allows us to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 William E. East , Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu , Frans Pretorius

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

Superradiance is a process by which massive bosonic particles can extract energy from spinning black holes, leading to the build up of a "cloud" if the particle has a Compton wavelength comparable to the black hole's Schwarzschild radius.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Zipeng Wang , Thomas Helfer , Katy Clough , Emanuele Berti

We report some new interesting features of the dynamics of a string axion field (i.e., a (pseudo-)scalar field with tiny mass with sine-Gordon-type self-interaction) around a rotating black hole in three respects. First, we revisit the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-19 Hirotaka Yoshino , Hideo Kodama

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

Black hole superradiance, which only relies on gravitational interactions, can provide a powerful probe of the existence of ultralight bosons that are weakly coupled to ordinary matter. However, as a boson cloud grows through superradiance,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-04 William E. East

Spinning black holes can transfer a significant fraction of their energy to ultralight bosonic fields via superradiance, condensing them in a co-rotating structure or "cloud". This mechanism turns black holes into powerful particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-30 Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Enrico Cannizzaro , Taishi Ikeda , Vitor Cardoso , Yifan Chen

Superradiant instability can form clouds around rotating black holes (BHs) composed of ultralight bosonic fields, such as axions. A BH with such a cloud in a binary system exhibits rich phenomena, and gravitational waves (GWs) from the BH…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-10 Takuya Takahashi , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka

Through the black hole (BH) superradiance, ultralight bosons can form dense clouds around rotating Kerr BHs. Certain ultralight bosons, such as axions and axion-like particles (promising dark matter candidates), naturally possess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Ning Xie , Fa Peng Huang

The recent preference for a dynamical dark energy (DE) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument seems to call for interactions between DE and dark matter (DM), either from direct DE-DM interaction or indirect interaction induced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhen-Hong Lyu , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang , Xiang-Xi Zeng

Ultra-light particles, such as axions, form a macroscopic condensate around a highly spinning black hole by the superradiant instability. Due to its macroscopic nature, the condensate opens the possibility of detecting the axion through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Hidetoshi Omiya , Takuya Takahashi , Takahiro Tanaka , Hirotaka Yoshino

Ultralight bosonic fields are compelling dark-matter candidates and arise in a variety of beyond-Standard-Model scenarios. These fields can tap energy and angular momentum from spinning black holes through superradiant instabilities, during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-04 Richard Brito , Sara Grillo , Paolo Pani

Superradiant instabilities of spinning black holes can be used to impose strong constraints on ultralight bosons, thus turning black holes into effective particle detectors. However, very little is known about the development of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani

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

Ultralight bosons and axion-like particles appear naturally in different scenarios and could solve some long-standing puzzles. Their detection is challenging, and all direct methods hinge on unknown couplings to the Standard Model of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-11 Vitor Cardoso , Óscar J. C. Dias , Gavin S. Hartnett , Matthew Middleton , Paolo Pani , Jorge E. Santos

Gravitational wave observations have recently revealed with high significance, and high precision, the existence of $\mathcal{O}(100) \, M_\odot$ rapidly rotating black holes, allowing gravitational wave events to be used for the first time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Andrea Caputo , Gabriele Franciolini , Samuel J. Witte

Light bosonic degrees of freedom have become a serious candidate for dark matter. The evolution of these fields around curved spacetimes is poorly understood but is expected to display interesting effects. In particular, the interaction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-20 Helvi Witek , Vitor Cardoso , Akihiro Ishibashi , Ulrich Sperhake
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