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We consider the evolution of sub-horizon-sized black holes which are formed during the high energy phase of the braneworld scenario. These black holes are long-lived due to modified evaporation and accretion of radiation during the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Majumdar , A. Mehta , J. M. Luck

Gravitational wave observations can provide unprecedented insight into the fundamental nature of gravity and allow for novel tests of modifications to General Relativity. One proposed modification suggests that gravity may undergo a phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-05 Mohammed Khalil , Noah Sennett , Jan Steinhoff , Alessandra Buonanno

In the framework of the dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, we study the scalar field perturbations of the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m-Melvin spacetime, which describes a charged black hole permeated by a uniform magnetic field. In the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Shao-Jun Zhang , Bin Wang , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Anzhong Wang

We discuss the conditions under which plane electromagnetic and gravitational waves can be amplified by a rotating black hole due to superradiant scattering. We show, in particular, that amplification can occur for low-frequency waves with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Joao G. Rosa

(abridged) We consider a secular orbital evolution of a supermassive binary black hole (SBBH) with unequal masses $M_p$ and $M_s < M_p$ in a central part of a non-spherical nuclear star cluster (NSC). When the mass of NSC inside the orbit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Pavel B. Ivanov , Alexander G. Polnarev

The leading order effect of the spin of a distant supermassive black hole (SMBH) on the orbit of compact binary revolving around it appears at the 1.5 post Newtonian (PN) expansion through coupling with the inner and outer orbital angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Yun Fang , Qing-Guo Huang

Black hole dynamical instabilities have been mostly studied in specific models. We here study the general properties of the complex-frequency modes responsible for such instabilities, guided by the example of a charged scalar field in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-04 Antonin Coutant , Florent Michel , Renaud Parentani

Normal modes, quasi-normal modes and super-radiant modes are studied to clarify the total dynamics for complex scalar fields in Kerr anti-de Sitter black hole spacetime. Orthonormal relations and quasi-orthonormal relations are obtained for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-06 Masakatsu Kenmoku

Since the descovery by Stephen Hawking that black holes emit radiation in the context of the semiclassical approach to gravity, the black hole thermodynamics has become an active field of research in theoretical physics. In this thesis, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-11 Raúl Rojas

Rotating axisymmetric objects amplify incoming waves by superradiant scattering. When enclosed in a cavity, the repeated interaction of a confined field with the object may trigger superradiant instabilities. Rotating binaries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Diogo C. Ribeiro , Miguel Zilhão , Vitor Cardoso

Gravitational waves from merging binary black holes present exciting opportunities for understanding fundamental aspects of gravity, including nonlinearities in the strong-field regime. One challenge in studying and interpreting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Siddharth Boyeneni , Jiaxi Wu , Elias R. Most

We study black holes in a modified gravity scenario involving a scalar field quadratically coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. The scalar is assumed to be in a spontaneously broken phase at spatial infinity due to a bare Higgs-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Eugeny Babichev , William T. Emond , Sabir Ramazanov

In the present paper we study the onset of the spin-induced scalarization of a Kerr black hole in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a massive scalar field. Our approach is based on a (2+1) time evolution of the relevant linearized scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Daniela D. Doneva , Lucas G. Collodel , Christian J. Krüger , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Understanding the formation and evolution of stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) requires a thorough investigation of the key physical processes involved. While one pathway involves the isolated evolution of massive binary stars,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 M. Paola Vaccaro

Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (sGB) gravity with an additional coupling between the scalar field and the Ricci scalar exhibits very interesting properties related to black hole stability, evasion of binary pulsar constraints, and general relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-25 Daniela D. Doneva , Llibert Aresté Saló , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Light bosonic scalars (e.g. axions) may form clouds around black holes via superradiant instabilities, or via accretion if they form some component of the dark matter. It has been suggested that their presence may lead to a distinctive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Dina Traykova , Katy Clough , Thomas Helfer , Emanuele Berti , Pedro G. Ferreira , Lam Hui

We calculate the first dynamical evolutions of merging black hole-neutron star binaries that construct the combined black hole-neutron star spacetime in a general relativistic framework. We treat the metric in the conformal flatness…

In a recent letter, we presented numerical relativity simulations, solving the full Einstein--Maxwell--Klein-Gordon equations, of superradiantly unstable Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes (BHs), enclosed in a cavity. Low frequency, spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-07 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos Herdeiro , José A. Font , Pedro J. Montero

A spherically symmetric black hole solution defined by the gravitational mass is explored in higher-order curvature gravity associated with a scalar field. It is demonstrated that the singularities of the curvature invariants will be far…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-04 G. G. L. Nashed , Usman Zafar , Kazuharu Bamba

The dynamics of black hole seeds in high redshift galaxies is key to understand their ability to grow via accretion and to pair in close binaries during galactic mergers. To properly follow the dynamics of black holes we develop a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-27 Hugo Pfister , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois , Massimo Dotti , Monica Colpi