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Recently it was shown that small deformations of the asymptotically flat black-hole geometry in some region near its horizon which do not alter considerably the fundamental mode, nevertheless, strongly affect the first several (and higher)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We investigate the parametrized black hole quasinormal ringdown formalism, which is a robust framework used to analyze quasinormal modes in systems that closely resemble general relativity, paying particular attention to the higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-11 Shin'ichi Hirano , Masashi Kimura , Masahide Yamaguchi , Jiale Zhang

We analytically investigate the spin-1 quasinormal mode frequencies of Schwarzschild black hole space-time. We formally determine these frequencies to arbitrary order as an expansion for large imaginary part (i.e., large-n, where n is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Marc Casals , Adrian C. Ottewill

We provide the most complete analysis so far of quasinormal modes of rotating black holes in a general higher-derivative extension of Einstein's theory. By finding the corrections to the Teukolsky equation and expressing them in a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Pablo A. Cano , Lodovico Capuano , Nicola Franchini , Simon Maenaut , Sebastian H. Völkel

We compute quasinormal mode frequencies for static limits of physical black holes - semi-classical black hole solutions to Einstein-Hilbert gravity characterized by the finite formation time of an apparent horizon and its weak regularity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-11 Fil Simovic , Daniel R. Terno

Quasinormal modes provide valuable information about the structure of spacetime outside a black hole. There is also a conjectured relationship between the highly damped quasinormal modes and the semi-classical spectrum of the horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 James Babb , Ramin G. Daghigh , Gabor Kunstatter

We make a thorough investigation of the asymptotic quasinormal modes of the four and five-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole for scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations. Our numerical results give full support to all the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Vitor Cardoso , Jose' P. S. Lemos , Shijun Yoshida

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

The accurate computation of quasinormal modes from rotating black holes beyond general relativity is crucial for testing fundamental physics with gravitational waves. In this study, we assess the accuracy of the eikonal and post-Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Ciro De Simone , Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Vittorio De Falco , Salvatore Capozziello

Black hole quasinormal mode frequencies can be very close to each other ("avoided crossings") or even completely degenerate ("exceptional points") when the system is characterized by more than one parameter. We investigate this resonant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Yiqiu Yang , Emanuele Berti , Nicola Franchini

We compute the quasinormal frequencies for scalar and electromagnetic perturbations of an improved Schwarzschild geometry in the framework of asymptotically safe gravity, which is one of the approaches to quantum gravity. Adopting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Angel Rincon , Grigoris Panotopoulos

We study quasinormal modes and time-domain profiles of a massive scalar field in the background of black holes arising in Einstein--Gauss--Bonnet--Proca gravity. The black holes in this theory possess \emph{primary Proca hair}, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 B. C. Lütfüoğlu

Extracting quasinormal modes from compact binary mergers to perform black hole spectroscopy is one of the fundamental pillars in current and future strong-gravity tests. Among the most remarkable findings of recent works is that including a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 Peter James Nee , Sebastian H. Völkel , Harald P. Pfeiffer

We develop a novel technique through spectral decompositions to study the gravitational perturbations of a black hole, without needing to decouple the linearized field equations into master equations and separate their radial and angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-19 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Pratik Wagle , Nicolas Yunes

The black hole uniqueness and the no-hair theorems imply that the quasinormal spectrum of any astrophysical black hole is determined solely by its mass and spin. The countably infinite number of quasinormal modes of a Kerr black hole are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-31 Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Swetha Bhagwat , Paolo Pani , Valeria Ferrari

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

The Effective Field Theory (EFT) of perturbations on an arbitrary background geometry with a timelike scalar profile has been recently constructed in the context of scalar-tensor theories. Unlike General Relativity, the regular Hayward…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 R. A. Konoplya

Black-hole spectroscopy is a powerful tool to probe the Kerr nature of astrophysical compact objects and their environment. The observation of multiple ringdown modes in gravitational waveforms could soon lead to high-precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Kyriakos Destounis , Francisco Duque

We carry out the first computation of gravitational quasinormal modes of black holes with arbitrary rotation in a theory with higher-derivative corrections. Our analysis focuses on a recently identified quartic-curvature theory that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Pablo A. Cano , Marina David , Guido van der Velde