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Recent studies have shown that rotating black holes can undergo spontaneous scalarization, leading to deviations from general relativity in the strong-field regime. We present the first nonperturbative calculation of the quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Wei Xiong , Peng-Cheng Li

A geometric inequality in General Relativity relates quantities that have both a physical interpretation and a geometrical definition. It is well known that the parameters that characterize the Kerr-Newman black hole satisfy several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergio Dain

We present new analytic results on black hole perturbation theory. Our results are based on a novel relation to four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. We propose an exact version of Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-12 Gleb Aminov , Alba Grassi , Yasuyuki Hatsuda

The article deals with the gravitational energy associated with axial perturbations of regular black holes. We review the stability of the geometry under odd-parity perturbations and the corresponding quasinormal modes, previously obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 S. C. Ulhoa , F. L. Carneiro , B. C. C. Carneiro

Stability criteria of nearly extreme black holes in the perturbations level is one of the interesting issues in gravitational systems. Considering the nearly extreme conformal-de Sitter black holes, in this paper, we obtain an exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Mehrab Momennia , Seyed Hossein Hendi

We determine the metric of a Kerr black hole subject to external tidal fields using metric reconstruction techniques. Working within the Newman-Penrose formalism, we solve the Teukolsky master equation for static, quadrupolar modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Marta Cocco , Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , David Pereñiguez , Maarten van de Meent

We discuss a general method to study linear perturbations of slowly rotating black holes which is valid for any perturbation field, and particularly advantageous when the field equations are not separable. As an illustration of the method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Emanuele Berti , Akihiro Ishibashi

We consider the general construction of near-horizon limit for extremal black hole solutions with non-trivial torsion, and derive the covariant geometric conditions for the existence this limit. A near-horizon solution with torsion is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 B. Cvetković , D. Rakonjac

The recent first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers has spurred a renewed interest in possible deviations from General Relativity (GR), since they could be detected in the GWs emitted by such systems. Of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Hugo Roussille

We study the linear perturbations about a nonrotating black hole solution of Horndeski's theory, using a systematic approach that extracts the asymptotic behaviour of perturbations (at spatial infinity and near the horizon) directly from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Hugo Roussille

Despite recent progress, the complete understanding of the perturbations of charged, rotating black holes as described by the Kerr-Newman metric remains an open and fundamental problem in relativity. In this study, we explore the existence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-14 Aaron Zimmerman , Zachary Mark

We investigate black holes and gravitational perturbations when both the scalar Gauss-Bonnet and dynamical Chern-Simons gravity sectors coexist in addition to the Einstein-Hilbert term, and both sectors are coupled to a single canonically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 Shin'ichi Hirano , Masashi Kimura , Masahide Yamaguchi

The perturbations of the Kerr metric and the miracle of their exact solutions play a critical role in the comparison of predictions of general relativity with astrophysical observations of compact massive objects. The differential equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

We investigate deformations of the Kerr-(A)dS near horizon geometry and derive partial infinitesimal rigidity results for it. The proof comprises two parts. First, we follow the analysis of Jezierski and Kami\'nski [Gen Rel Grav 45 (2013)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Eric Bahuaud , Sharmila Gunasekaran , Hari K Kunduri , Eric Woolgar

We study a two-dimensional theory of gravity coupled to matter that is relevant to describe holographic properties of black holes with a single rotational parameter in five dimensions (with or without cosmological constant). We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Alejandra Castro , Juan F. Pedraza , Chiara Toldo , Evita Verheijden

We consider weakly non-linear gravitational perturbations of a near-extremal Kerr black hole governed by the second order vacuum Einstein equation. Using the GHZ formalism [Green et al., Class. Quant. Grav. 7(7):075001, 2020], these are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-05 Claudio Iuliano , Stefan Hollands , Stephen R. Green , Peter Zimmerman

Exploiting the correspondence between Kerr-Newman-(A)dS black hole solutions in general relativity and their constant-curvature counterparts in $f(R)$ gravity, we employ a unified framework to investigate the horizon structure and extremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Alikram N. Aliev

One of the central goals of the newborn field of gravitational wave astronomy is to test gravity in the highly nonlinear, strong field regime characterizing the spacetime of black holes. In particular, "black hole spectroscopy" (the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Kostas Glampedakis , George Pappas , Hector O. Silva , Emanuele Berti

We investigate higher derivative corrections to the extremal Kerr black hole in the context of heterotic string theory with $\alpha'$ corrections and of a cubic-curvature extension of general relativity. By analyzing the near-horizon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Pablo A. Cano , Marina David

The resonant mode spectrum of the Kerr-Newman spacetime is presently unknown. These modes, called the quasinormal modes, play a central role in determining the stability of Kerr-Newman black holes and their response to perturbations. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Zachary Mark , Huan Yang , Aaron Zimmerman , Yanbei Chen