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Rapidly rotating black holes are known to develop instabilities in the presence of a sufficiently light boson, a process which becomes efficient when the boson's Compton wavelength is roughly the size of the black hole. This phenomenon,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Diego Blas , Samuel J. Witte

The possible detection of echoes in late gravitational-wave signals is the most promising way to test horizonless alternatives to general relativistic black holes, and probe the physics of these hypothetical ultra-compact objects. While…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Vania Vellucci , Edgardo Franzin , Stefano Liberati

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

Ultralight bosons are attractive dark-matter candidates and appear in various scenarios beyond standard model. They can induce superradiant instabilities around spinning black holes (BHs), extracting the energy and angular momentum from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 Rong-Zhen Guo , Yang Jiang , Qing-Guo Huang

Under some conditions, light boson fields grow exponentially around a rotating black hole, called the superradiance instability. We discuss effects of nonlinear interactions of the boson on the instability. In particular, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Hajime Fukuda , Kazunori Nakayama

Astrophysical black holes are embedded in surrounding dark and baryonic matter that can measurably perturb the spacetime. We construct a self-consistent spacetime describing a slowly rotating black hole embedded in an external matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Sayak Datta , Chiranjeeb Singha

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

Spinning black holes could produce ultralight particles via the superradiance instability. These particles form a dense cloud around the host black hole, introducing new opportunities for the detection of ultralight new physics. When the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Hyungjin Kim , Alessandro Lenoci

Quantum black holes (BHs), thought of as an excited multilevel system, can be effectively modelled by replacing an event horizon with a partially reflective membrane. This emergent feature affects their interaction with hosting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-05 Soumodeep Mitra , Sumanta Chakraborty , Rodrigo Vicente , Justin C. Feng

We study the imprints of new ultralight particles on the gravitational-wave signals emitted by binary black holes. Superradiant instabilities may create large clouds of scalar or vector fields around rotating black holes. The presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 Daniel Baumann , Horng Sheng Chia , Rafael A. Porto , John Stout

Ultralight bosonic fields in the mass range $\sim (10^{-20}-10^{-11})\,{\rm eV}$ can trigger a superradiant instability that extracts energy and angular momentum from an astrophysical black hole with mass $M\sim(5,10^{10})M_\odot$, forming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-23 Giuseppe Ficarra , Paolo Pani , Helvi Witek

Rotating black holes can amplify ultralight bosonic fields through superradiance, forming macroscopic clouds known as gravitational atoms. When the cloud forms around one of the components of a binary system, it can undergo a series of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Riccardo Della Monica , Richard Brito

The past decade has transformed our ability to observe the Universe. Via gravitational waves, merging black holes and neutron stars can now be directly detected, offering unprecedented opportunities to test General Relativity and explore…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-24 Thomas F. M. Spieksma

Superradiant clouds may develop around a rotating black hole, if there is a bosonic field with Compton wavelength comparable to the size of the black hole. In this paper, we investigate the effects of the cloud on the orbits of nearby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Jun Zhang , Huan Yang

Kerr black hole (BH) superradiance can form gravitational atoms and produce characteristic gravitational-wave signals, providing a probe of ultralight bosons and dark matter. In realistic systems, accretion-disk gravity can shift energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Ruiheng Li , Zhong-hao Luo , Zehong Wang , Fa Peng Huang

Ultralight bosons, predicted in scenarios beyond the Standard Model and viable dark matter (DM) candidates, can form superradiant clouds around spinning black holes influencing their dynamics. Using century-long monitored OJ287 supermassive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-14 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Volodymyr Takhistov , Hui-Yu Zhu

The gravitational waves and energy radiations from a spinning compact object with stellar mass in a circular orbit in the equatorial plane of a supermassive Kerr black hole are investigated in this paper. The effect how the spin acts on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Wen-Biao Han

The gravitational waves emitted by massive black hole binaries can be affected by a variety of environmental effects, which, if detected, could inform astrophysics and cosmology. We here study how gravitational waves emitted by black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Tomás Ferreira Chase , Diana López Nacir , Nicolás Yunes

Spinning horizonless compact objects may be unstable against an 'ergoregion instability'. We investigate this mechanism for electromagnetic perturbations of ultracompact Kerr-like objects with a reflecting surface, extending previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-13 Elisa Maggio , Vitor Cardoso , Sam R. Dolan , Paolo Pani

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