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We examine the spectrum of a massive scalar particle interacting with the strong gravitational field of a static, spherically symmetric object which is not quite massive enough to be a black hole. As was found in the case of massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 G. H. Gossel , J. C. Berengut , V. V. Flambaum

We study the dynamical evolution of superradiant instabilities of rotating black holes for multiple axion fields with comparable masses, motivated by string theory constructions, which typically exhibit a large number of light axions, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Daniel Neves , João G. Rosa

We study the impact of a binary companion on black hole superradiance at orbital frequencies away from the gravitational-collider-physics (GCP) resonance bands. A superradiant state can couple to a strongly absorptive state via the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Hui-Yu Zhu

We argue that the stable (color singlet) supermassive gravitinos proposed in our previous work can serve as seeds for giant primordial black holes. These seeds are hypothesized to start out as tightly bound states of fractionally charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Krzysztof A. Meissner , Hermann Nicolai

It is shown that the superradiance modes always exist in the radiation by the $(4+n)$-dimensional rotating black holes. Using a Bekenstein argument the condition for the superradiance modes is shown to be $0 < \omega < m \Omega$ for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Eylee Jung , SungHoon Kim , D. K. Park

We consider the non-commutative(NC) Kerr black hole where the mass of the central object is smeared over a region of linear size $\sqrt{b}$, $b$ is the strength of the NC character of spacetime. For the spacetime under consideration, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-12 Sohan Kumar Jha

Massive bosons, such as light scalars and vector bosons, can lead to instabilities of rotating black holes by the superradiance effect, which extracts energy and angular momentum from rapidly-rotating black holes effectively. This process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-03 Lei Zu , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

Numerical evolution of massless scalar fields on Kerr background is studied. The initial data specifications are chosen to have compact support separated from the ergoregion and to yield nearly monochromatic incident wave packets. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-21 András László , István Rácz

We consider the Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations for a spherically symmetric scalar field scattering off a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in asymptotically flat spacetime. The equations are solved numerically using a hyperboloidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-20 Olaf Baake , Oliver Rinne

We study time evolutions of charged scalar perturbations on the background of a charged hairy black hole, in which the perturbations can be governed by a double-peak effective potential. By extracting quasinormal modes from the waveform of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

We model a single black hole in equilibrium with a dark photon-cold dark matter environment. Representing the dark photon as a Proca field, we show that a Schwarzschild black hole grows vector-field "hair" when allowed to accrete from an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Fredric Hancock , Helvi Witek

Ultralight bosons are a class of hypothetical particles that could potentially solve critical problems in fields ranging from cosmology to astrophysics and fundamental physics. If ultralight bosons exist, they form clouds around spinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 Kelvin H. M. Chan , Otto A. Hannuksela

Ultralight scalars can form superradiant clouds around rotating black holes. These may alter the dynamics of compact binaries and the ensuing waveform through orbital resonances and cloud ionization. We re-examine resonances involving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-22 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli

We studied the superradiance effect of a charge black hole immersed in an expanding Universe. We considered a test massive charged scalar field scattered off the horizon of the charge McVittie black hole. We carried out a detailed analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-06 Stella Kiorpelidi , Konstantinos Ntrekis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

We study the collapse of rapidly rotating supermassive stars that may have formed in the early Universe. By self-consistently simulating the dynamics from the onset of collapse using three-dimensional general-relativistic hydrodynamics with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 C. Reisswig , C. D. Ott , E. Abdikamalov , R. Haas , P. Moesta , E. Schnetter

We show that the magnetic dipole and gravitational radiation emitted by a pulsar can undergo superradiant scattering off a spinning black hole companion. We find that the relative amount of superradiant modes in the radiation depends on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-14 Joao G. Rosa

A massive spin-2 field can grow unstably around a black hole, giving rise to a potential probe of the existence of such fields. In this work, we use time-domain evolutions to study such instabilities. Considering the linear regime by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 William E. East , Nils Siemonsen

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

We study electromagnetic perturbations around a Kerr black hole surrounded by a thin disk on the equatorial plane. Our main purpose is to reveal the black hole superradiance of electromagnetic waves emitted from the disk surface. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Taichi Kobayashi , Akira Tomimatsu

We describe the full nonlinear development of the superradiant instability for a charged massless scalar field, coupled to general relativity and electromagnetism, in the vicinity of a Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS black hole. The presence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-13 Pablo Bosch , Stephen R. Green , Luis Lehner