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Ultralight bosons are a proposed solution to outstanding problems in cosmology and particle physics: they provide a dark-matter candidate while potentially explaining the strong charge-parity problem. If they exist, ultralight bosons can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Ethan Payne , Ling Sun , Kyle Kremer , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

Black hole superradiance has proven being very valuable in several realms of gravitational physics, and holds a promising discovery potential. In this paper, we consider the superradiant instability of magnetically-charged, rotating black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 David Pereñiguez , Marina de Amicis , Richard Brito , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

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

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

Focusing on the rotating black hole (BH) surrounded by the anisotropic fluid matters; radiation, dust, and dark matter, we study the massive scalar superradiant scattering and the stability in the Kiselev spacetime. Superradiance behavior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-16 Mohsen Khodadi , Reza Pourkhodabakhshi

Ultralight bosonic fields are compelling dark-matter candidates and arise in a variety of beyond-Standard-Model scenarios. These fields can tap energy and angular momentum from spinning black holes through superradiant instabilities, during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-04 Richard Brito , Sara Grillo , Paolo Pani

Black hole (BH) shadows can be used to probe new physics in the form of ultra-light particles via the phenomenon of superradiant instability. By directly affecting the BH mass and spin, superradiance can lead to a time evolution of the BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-13 Rittick Roy , Sunny Vagnozzi , Luca Visinelli

Spherically symmetric bosonic stars are one of the few examples of gravitating solitons that are known to form dynamically, via a classical process of (incomplete) gravitational collapse. As stationary solutions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-29 Pedro V. P. Cunha , José A. Font , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Miguel Zilhão

In this work, we highlight the existence of a lower limit on the tidal deformability parameter $\Lambda$, determined by the requirement of relativistic causality. Additionally, by considering the upper bound set on compactness, we identify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Benedetta Russo , Alfredo Urbano

We study the gravitational-wave (GW) signatures of clouds of ultralight bosons around black holes (BHs) in binary inspirals. These clouds, which are formed via superradiance instabilities for rapidly rotating BHs, produce distinct effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-13 Daniel Baumann , Horng Sheng Chia , Rafael A. Porto

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

We investigate whether a black hole(BH) surrounded by a dark matter (DM) halo has scalar hair/superradiant instability in the scalar tensor theory of gravity. In the scalar tensor theory, the coupling of matter and the scalar field creates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Junya Tanaka

Direct detection of gravitational waves from several compact binary coalescences has ushered in a new era of astronomy. It has opened up the possibility of detecting ultralight bosons, predicted by extensions of the Standard Model, from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-19 Shrobana Ghosh

We discuss that in the extreme relativistic limit, i.e., when z >>1, where z is the surface gravitational redshift, there could be radiation pressure supported and dominated stars with arbitrary gravitational mass, high or low. Such Objects…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Abhas Mitra

There are many observational evidences for the existence of massive compact condensations in the range $10^6 -10^{10} M_\odot$ at the core of various galaxies. At present such condensations are commonly interpreted as Black Holes (BHs).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhas Mitra

Rotating black holes (BHs) can efficiently transfer energy to the surrounding environment via superradiance. In particular, when the Compton length of a particle is comparable to the gravitational radius of a BH, the particle's occupation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Nicolás Bernal , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Yong Xu

We study charged scalar perturbations of charged extremal black holes in Einstein-Born-Infeld theory. Our numerical results indicate that these black holes all suffer from superradiant instability by the unstable quasi-bound states,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-05 Ze-Hua Wu , H. Lu

Accretion is a common phenomenon associated with any astrophysical compact object, which is best described by plasma, a state of matter composed of electrons and heavy ions. In this paper, we analyze the linear dynamics of electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Avijit Chowdhury , Shauvik Biswas , Sumanta Chakraborty

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

Beyond black holes and neutron stars, new hypothetical compact objects have been proposed as potential astrophysical entities. In general, their properties have not yet been fully explored or understood, nor has it been proven whether or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Miguel Bezares , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual