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A supermassive rotating toroidal black hole (TBH) is proposed as the fundamental structure of quasars and other jet-producing active galactic nuclei. Rotating protogalaxies gather matter from the central gaseous region leading to the birth…

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This paper explores the properties of the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a regular black hole(BH) characterized by a Minkowski core and sub-Planckian curvature. When focusing on a special case, this regular BH exhibits identical large-scale…

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We have studied quasinormal modes of scalar perturbations of a black hole in massive gravity. The parameters of the theory, such as the mass of the black hole, the scalar charge of the black hole and the spherical harmonic index is varied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Sharmanthie Fernando , Tyler Clark

In this paper we study the stability and quasi-normal modes of scalar perturbations of black holes. The static charged black hole considered here is a solution to Born-Infeld electrodynamics coupled to gravity. We conclude that the black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Sharmanthie Fernando , Chad Holbrook

We present a short review of the analytical aspects of recent progress in the study of black hole spectral instability and its potential observational consequences. This topic, inspired by earlier foundational works, has attracted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Shui-Fa Shen , Guan-Ru Li , Ramin G. Daghigh , Jodin C. Morey , Michael D. Green , Wei-Liang Qian , Rui-Hong Yue

So far analysis of the quasinormal spectrum of a massive charged scalar field in the black hole background has been limited by the regime of small \mu M and qQ, where \mu, q (M, Q) are mass and charge of the field (black hole). Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-06 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

The growing database of gravitational-wave (GW) detections with the binary black holes (BHs) merging in the distant Universe contains subtle insights into their formation scenarios. One of the puzzling properties of detected GW sources is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Aleksandra Olejak , Jakub Klencki , Xiao-Tian Xu , Chen Wang , Krzysztof Belczynski , Jean-Pierre Lasota

In nonminimally coupled theories where a scalar field is coupled to the Ricci scalar, neutron stars (NSs) can have scalar charges through an interaction with matter mediated by gravity. On the other hand, the same theories do not give rise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hiroki Takeda , Shinji Tsujikawa , Atsushi Nishizawa

Spontaneous scalarization of black holes in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (sGB) gravity is a very interesting phenomenon allowing black holes to circumvent the no-hair theorem and acquire scalar hair while leaving the weak field regime of the theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-15 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Daniela D. Doneva , Jutta Kunz , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We assess the effects of super-massive black hole (SMBH) environments on the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from binary SMBHs. To date, searches with pulsar timing arrays for GWs from binary SMBHs, in the frequency band $\sim1-100$\,nHz,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 V. Ravi , J. S. B. Wyithe , R. M. Shannon , G. Hobbs , R. N. Manchester

We study the superradiant instability of slowly rotating Kerr-Newman (sKN) black holes under a charged massive scalar perturbation. These black holes resemble closer the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes than the Kerr-Newman black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Yun Soo Myung

Tensor-scalar theory of gravity allows the generation of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources, like Supernov\ae{}, even in the spherical case. That motivated us to study the collapse of a degenerate stellar core, within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Novak , J. M. Ibanez

The emission from black hole binaries (BHBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) displays significant aperiodic variabilities. The most promising explanation for these variabilities is the propagating fluctuations in the accretion flow. It is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Da-Bin Lin , Zu-Jia Lu , Hui-Jun Mu , Tong Liu , Shu-Jin Hou , Jing Lv , Wei-Min Gu , En-Wei Liang

Binary-black-hole (BBH) mergers can take place close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) while being in a bound orbit around the SMBH. In this paper, we study such bound triple systems and show that including the strong gravity effects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Filippo Camilloni , Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , Daniele Pica

We study the superradiant instability in scalar-tensor theories of gravitation, where matter outside a black hole provides an effective mass to the scalar degree of freedom of the gravitational sector. We discuss this effect for arbitrarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Giuseppe Lingetti , Enrico Cannizzaro , Paolo Pani

[Abridged] The primordial scalar power spectrum is well constrained on large scales, primarily by the observations of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Over the last few years, it has been recognized that a sharp…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 H. V. Ragavendra , Pankaj Saha , L. Sriramkumar , Joseph Silk

The orbital evolution of binary black hole (BBH) systems is determined by the component masses and spins of the black holes and the governing gravity theory. Gravitational wave (GW) signals from the evolution of BBH orbits offer an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Debtroy Das , Soumen Roy , Anand S. Sengupta , Cosimo Bambi

We propose a novel technique to probe the beyond standard model (BSM) of particle physics. The mass spectrum of unknown BSM particles can be scanned by observing gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by Hawking radiation of black holes. This is…

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In this work I summarize a model of binary stellar evolution involving Case C mass transfer followed by a common envelope that strips away the hydrogen from the core of the primary star at the cost of shrinking the orbital separation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-27 Enrique Moreno Méndez

Binary black hole (BBH) systems residing in the centers of galaxies evolve within complex astrophysical environments. These environments, comprising dark matter (DM) halos and baryonic accretion disks, can significantly alter the orbital…

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