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We investigate a new mechanism to create large curvature perturbations on small scales due to parameter resonance in a single-field inflationary model with a small periodic structure upon the potential. After reentering the horizon, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Jing Liu , Lang Liu , Xing-Yu Yang

For an observer, the Black Hole (BH) shadow is the BH's apparent image in the sky due to the gravitational lensing of nearby radiation, emitted by an external source. A recent class of solutions dubbed Kerr BHs with scalar hair possess…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Helgi F. Runarsson

The Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture is a hypothesis regarding the properties of event horizons and singularities during the formation of black holes, stating that singularities are always encompassed by the event horizons(TEH) of black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Min Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

The ringdown is the late part of the post-merger signature emitted during the coalescence of two black holes and comprises of a superposition of quasi-normal-modes. Within general relativity, because of the no-hair theorems, the frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Swetha Bhagwat , Miriam Cabero , Collin D. Capano , Badri Krishnan , Duncan A. Brown

In this paper, we perform small perturbations around the circular timelike orbit in the equatorial plane of the Horndeski rotating black hole, and analyze the effects of Horndeski hair on the three fundamental frequencies of the epicyclic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Meng-He Wu , Hong Guo , Xiao-Mei Kuang

In this article we discuss a possible way of testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis by taking advantage of phenomena correlated with chaotic motion in the final stages of an accretion disk around a bumpy black hole. We anticipate that these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-26 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , George Contopoulos

We prove sharp pointwise $t^{-3}$ decay for scalar linear perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole without symmetry assumptions on the data. We also consider electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations for which we obtain decay rates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-06 Roland Donninger , Wilhelm Schlag , Avy Soffer

In general relativity, when two black holes merge they produce a rotating (Kerr) black hole remnant. According to perturbation theory, the remnant emits "ringdown" radiation: a superposition of exponentials with characteristic complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Emanuele Berti , Vishal Baibhav , Roberto Cotesta

We study the perturbative behaviour of topological black holes. We calculate both analytically and numerically the quasi-normal modes of scalar perturbations. In the case of small black holes we find discontinuities of the quasi-normal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 George Koutsoumbas , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , George Siopsis

We study nonlinear evolutions of binary black hole mergers, uncovering power-law contributions generated by the long-range behaviour of the highly-curved dynamical spacetime. The result is achieved by exploiting the strong increase of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-05 Gregorio Carullo , Marina De Amicis

This study delves into the existence of dark matter around supermassive black holes in galactic cores using a novel gravitational model. By analyzing gravitational waves emitted during the ringdown phase of black holes under different field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-14 Jie Liang , Dong Liu , Hao-Jie Lin , Zheng-Wen Long

In the present paper we study the scalar sector of the quasinormal modes of charged general relativistic, static and spherically symmetric black holes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics and embedded in a class of scalar-tensor theories.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-15 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Ivan Zh. Stefanov

It has been speculated that quantum gravity corrections may lead to modifications to space-time geometry near black hole horizons. Such structures may cause reflections to gravitational waves, causing {\it echoes} that follow the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-07 Song Ming Du , Yanbei Chen

The formation of compact objects-neutron stars, black holes, and supermassive black holes-and its connection to the chemical composition of the galaxies is one of the central questions in astrophysics. We propose a novel data-driven,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-05 Suvodip Mukherjee , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah

East and Pretorius (arXiv:1704.04791) have successfully evolved, using fully non-linear numerical simulations, the superradiant instability of the Kerr black hole (BH) triggered by a massive, complex vector field. Evolutions terminate in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

We study the gravitational waveforms generated by critical, equatorial plunging geodesics of the Kerr metric that start from an unstable-circular-orbit, which describe the test-mass limit of spin-aligned eccentric black-hole mergers. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Guglielmo Faggioli , Maarten van de Meent , Alessandra Buonanno , Gaurav Khanna

The recent speculation of Maggiore that the periodicity of a black hole may be the origin of the area quantization law is confirmed. We exclusively utilize the period of motion of an outgoing wave, which is shown to be related to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-23 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Xian-Ming Liu , Wen-Biao Liu

We discuss a novel mechanism to generate gravitational waves in the early universe. A standard way to produce primordial black holes is to enhance at small-scales the overdensity perturbations generated during inflation. The latter, upon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 V. De Luca , V. Desjacques , G. Franciolini , A. Riotto

Shift-symmetric Horndeski theories admit an interesting class of Schwarzschild black hole solutions exhibiting time-dependent scalar hair. By making use of Lema\^{i}tre coordinates, we analyze perturbations around these types of black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Justin Khoury , Mark Trodden , Sam S. C. Wong

We numerically investigate the thermally unstable accretion disks around black holes. We adopt an evolutionary viscous stress equation to replace the standard alpha-prescription based on the results of two MHD simulations. We find a kind of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-30 Li Xue , Wlodek Kluzniak , Aleksander Sadowski , Ju-Fu Lu , Marek Abramowicz