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The superradiance instability of rotating black holes leads to the formation of an ultralight boson cloud with distinctive observational signatures, making black holes an effective probe of ultralight bosons. However, around black holes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hui-Yu Zhu , Xi Tong , Giorgio Manzoni , Yanjiao Ma

It has been recently observed that a scalar field with Robin boundary conditions (RBCs) can trigger both a superradiant and a bulk instability for a BTZ black hole (BH). To understand the generality and scrutinize the origin of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-11 Hugo R. C. Ferreira , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

In Einstein-scalar-Maxwell theories with a coupling between the scalar field $\phi$ and the electromagnetic field strength $F$ of the form $\mu(\phi) F$, we investigate the existence of exotic compact objects (ECOs) and their observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

One class of competitive candidates for dark matter is ultralight bosons. If they exist, these bosons may form long-lived bosonic clouds surrounding rotating black holes via superradiant instabilities, acting as sources of gravity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Joseph Gais , Mark H. Y. Cheung , Tjonnie G. F. Li

Recent investigations of the pseudospectrum in black hole spacetimes have shown that quasinormal mode frequencies suffer from spectral instabilities. This phenomenon may severely affect gravitational-wave spectroscopy and limit precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-13 Valentin Boyanov , Kyriakos Destounis , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Vitor Cardoso , José Luis Jaramillo

Black Hole measurements have grown significantly in the new age of gravitation wave astronomy from LIGO observations of binary black hole mergers. As yet unobserved massive ultralight bosonic fields represent one of the most exciting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Matthew J. Stott

Oscillating clouds of ultralight bosons can grow around spinning black holes through superradiance, extracting energy and angular momentum, and eventually dissipating through gravitational radiation. Gravitational wave detectors like LIGO,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-17 Taillte May , William E. East , Nils Siemonsen

Rotating black holes can generate boson clouds via superradiance when the boson's Compton wavelength is comparable to the black hole's size. In binary systems, these clouds can produce distinctive observational imprints. Recent studies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-09 Ximeng Li , Jing Ren , Xi-Li Zhang

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

In this paper we show that electrically charged black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity suffer from a superradiant instability. It is triggered by a charged scalar field that fulfills Dirichlet boundary conditions at a mirror located…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-12 Octavio Fierro , Nicolas Grandi , Julio Oliva

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

The radiation emitted by horizonless exotic compact objects (ECOs), such as wormholes, 2-2-holes, fuzzballs, gravastars, boson stars, collapsed polymers, superspinars etc., is expected to be strongly suppressed when compared to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Martti Raidal , Sergey Solodukhin , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

Ultralight bosons and axion-like particles appear naturally in different scenarios and could solve some long-standing puzzles. Their detection is challenging, and all direct methods hinge on unknown couplings to the Standard Model of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-11 Vitor Cardoso , Óscar J. C. Dias , Gavin S. Hartnett , Matthew Middleton , Paolo Pani , Jorge E. Santos

Spacetimes with an ergoregion that is not connected to a horizon are linearly unstable. While the linear regime has been studied in a number of settings, little is known about the nonlinear evolution of this ergoregion instability. Here, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

Ultralight bosons can be excited around spinning black holes via black hole superradiance. These boson clouds may play an important role in the orbital evolution of binary black holes. In this work, we investigate the formation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Ao Guo , Qi-Yan Zhang , Huan Yang , Jun Zhang

Due to coherent superradiant amplification, massive bosonic fields can trigger an instability in spinning black holes, tapping their energy and angular momentum and forming macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensates around them. This phenomenon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 Oscar J. C. Dias , Giuseppe Lingetti , Paolo Pani , Jorge E. Santos

Rotating black holes can form dense boson clouds through superradiant instability, making Kerr black holes a powerful probe of ultralight massive bosons. Previous studies of black hole superradiance have often treated bosonic fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Lingyun Fu , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka , Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Hui-Yu Zhu

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

In several approaches to evading the information paradox, the semiclassical black hole is replaced by an Exotic Compact Object (ECO). It has been conjectured that gravitational waves emitted by the merger of ECOs can reflect off the ECOs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Bin Guo , Samir D. Mathur

Gravitational atoms produced from the superradiant extraction of rotational energy of spinning black holes can reach energy densities significantly higher than that of dark matter, turning black holes into powerful potential detectors for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-15 Yifan Chen , Xiao Xue , Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso