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Ultralight bosons can affect the dynamics of spinning black holes (BHs) via superradiant instability, which can lead to a time evolution of the supermassive BH shadow. We study prospects for witnessing the superradiance-induced BH shadow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-25 Yifan Chen , Rittick Roy , Sunny Vagnozzi , Luca Visinelli

Black holes have turned into cosmic laboratories to search for ultra-light scalars by virtue of the superradiant instability. In this paper we present a detailed study of the impact of the superradiant evolution on the black hole shadow and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Gastón Creci , Stefan Vandoren , Helvi Witek

Kerr black holes coupled to quantized bosonic fields display a special version of the Hawking effect, governed by the superradiance condition. This leads to rapid growth of boson cloud through spontaneous creation, leading to slowing down…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-27 Rittick Roy , Urjit A. Yajnik

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, as important candidates of dark matter, can condense around spinning black holes (BHs) to form long-lived ``boson clouds'' due to superradiance instability. The boson-BH system can be observed through gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Rong-Zhen Guo , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

The process of superradiance can extract angular momentum and energy from astrophysical black holes (BHs) to populate gravitationally-bound states with an exponentially large number of light bosons. We analytically calculate superradiant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Masha Baryakhtar , Robert Lasenby , Mae Teo

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

Rotating black holes can generate boson clouds via superradiance when the boson's Compton wavelength is comparable to the black hole's size. In binary systems, these clouds can produce distinctive observational imprints. Recent studies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-09 Ximeng Li , Jing Ren , Xi-Li Zhang

Mass and spin of massive black holes (BHs) at the centre of galaxies evolve due to gas accretion and mergers with other BHs. Besides affecting e.g. the evolution of relativistic jets, the BH spin determines the efficiency with which the BH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-14 Luca Sala , Milena Valentini , Veronica Biffi , Klaus Dolag

Thanks for the releasing image of supermassive black holes (BHs) by the event horizon telescope (EHT) at the heart of the $M87$ galaxy. After the discovery of this mysterious object, scientists paid attention to exploring the BH shadow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , M. Israr Aslam , Rabia Saleem

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

Astrophysical black holes (BHs) have two fundamental properties: mass and spin. While the mass-evolution of BHs has been extensively studied, much less work has been done on predicting the distribution of BH spins. In this paper we present…

The spin is an important but poorly constrained parameter for describing supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Using the continuity equation of SMBH number density, we explicitly obtain the mass-dependent cosmological evolution of the radiative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yan-Rong Li , Jian-Min Wang , Luis C. Ho

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

Gravitational signatures of black hole superradiance are a unique probe of ultralight particles that are weakly-coupled to ordinary matter. The existence of an ultralight boson would lead spinning black holes with size comparable to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-03 Nils Siemonsen , Taillte May , William E. East

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

Ultralight scalars emerge naturally in several motivated particle physics scenarios and are viable candidates for dark matter. While laboratory detection of such bosons is challenging, their existence in nature can be imprinted on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Majed Khalaf , Eric Kuflik , Alessandro Lenoci , Nicholas Chamberlain Stone

Supermassive black holes (BH) accrete gas from their surroundings and coalesce with companions during galaxy mergers, and both processes change the BH mass and spin. By means of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies, either…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yohan Dubois , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

This study investigates the visual characteristics of a rotating black hole (BH) within the fabric of $4$D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity illuminated with two illumination models, such as a celestial light sphere and a thin accretion disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Muhammad Israr Aslam , Manahil Ali , Abdul Malik Sultan , Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Sultan Hussain

Ultralight bosons are promising dark matter candidates and can trigger superradiant instabilities of spinning black holes (BHs), resulting in long-lived rotating "bosonic clouds" around the BHs and dissipating their energy through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Chen Yuan , Yang Jiang , Qing-Guo Huang
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