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We present a short review of the analytical aspects of recent progress in the study of black hole spectral instability and its potential observational consequences. This topic, inspired by earlier foundational works, has attracted…

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Quasinormal modes have played a prominent role in the discussion of perturbations of black holes, and the question arises whether they are as significant as normal modes are for self adjoint systems, such as harmonic oscillators. They can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Hans-Peter Nollert

Black holes have their proper oscillations, which are called the quasi-normal modes. The proper oscillations of astrophysical black holes can be observed in the nearest future with the help of gravitational wave detectors. Quasi-normal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-26 Alexander Zhidenko

Regular black holes, nonsingular solutions to gravitational collapse with quantum corrections, offer a compelling alternative to classical black holes with curvature singularities. In this work, we investigate how the presence of skewed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Chen Lan , Ying-Lei Tian , Hao Yang , Zhen-Xiao Zhang , Yan-Gang Miao

Black holes are found to exist in gravitational theories with the presence of quadratic curvature terms and behave differently from the Schwarzschild solution. We present an exhaustive analysis for determining the quasinormal modes of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Yi-Fu Cai , Hezi Zhang , Junyu Liu , Gong Cheng , Min Wang

Much of our physical intuition about black hole quasinormal modes in general relativity comes from the eikonal/geometric optics approximation. According to the well-established eikonal model, the fundamental quasinormal mode represents…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Kostas Glampedakis , Hector O. Silva

Gravitational waves provide direct information about the nature of spacetime and the existence of black holes. The remnant of a binary black hole merger emits gravitational waves in the form of quasinormal modes, whose spectrum is known as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-18 Iara Ota

We study the gravitational perturbations of black holes in quadratic gravity, in which the Einstein-Hilbert term is supplemented by quadratic terms in the curvature tensor. In this class of theories, the Schwarzschild solution can coexist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-05 Georgios Antoniou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani

Using the quasinormal modes of a massless scalar perturbation, we investigate the small/large black hole phase transition in the Lorentz symmetry breaking massive gravity. We mainly focus on two issues: i) the sign change of slope of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-11 Bin Liang , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

The ringdown gravitational wave signal arising e.g., in the final stage of a black hole binary merger, contains important information about the properties of the remnant, and can potentially be used to perform clean tests of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Taillte May , Sizheng Ma , Justin L. Ripley , William E. East

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

Alternative theories of gravity may be put to the test by making use of gravitational wave observations. Scalar-tensor theories provide a relatively simple framework that allows for compact object solutions with characteristics different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Georgios Antoniou

Gravitational decoupling can add hair to the black holes by adding extra sources. The quasinormal modes of hairy black hole caused by gravitational decoupling for the massless scalar field, electromagnetic field, and gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-24 Yi Yang , Dong Liu , Ali Övgün , Zheng-Wen Long , Zhaoyi Xu

Perturbations of black holes, initially considered in the context of possible observations of astrophysical effects, have been studied for the past ten years in string theory, brane-world models and quantum gravity. Through the famous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-29 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

The quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a black hole spacetime are the free, decaying oscillations of the spacetime, and are well understood in the case of Kerr black holes. We discuss a method for computing the QNMs of spacetimes which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron Zimmerman , Huan Yang , Zachary Mark , Yanbei Chen , Luis Lehner

In this work, we have studied the quasinormal modes of a black hole in a model of the type $f(Q)=\underset{n}{\sum}a_{n}\left(Q-Q_{0}\right)^{n} $ in $f(Q)$ gravity by using a recently introduced method known as Bernstein spectral method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Ali Övgün , M. Koussour

In this paper we investigate gravitational perturbations of a regular black hole, particularly Bardeen solution. Such system is solution of Einstein equations that do not have a singularity at the origin of the radial symmetry. However it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-17 S. C. Ulhoa

Coherent quantum black holes are quantum geometries obtained by means of a mean-field-like approach to the gravitational interaction. This procedure attenuates the classical spacetime singularities of general relativity by replacing them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Tommaso Antonelli , Andrea Giusti , Roberto Casadio , Lavinia Heisenberg

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

Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes are crucial in understanding the ringdown phase after a merger. While for Kerr black holes these modes have been known for a long time, their calculation has remained a challenge in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz