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This is an unconventional review article on spectral problems in black hole perturbation theory. Our purpose is to explain how to apply various known techniques in quantum mechanics to such spectral problems. The article includes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Masashi Kimura

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 undertake a comprehensive examination of quasinormal modes linked to Lee-Wick black holes, delving into scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational perturbations using the spectral method. Such black holes can display a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Davide Batic , Denys Dutykh , Breno Loureiro Giacchini

Black hole spectroscopy is a clean and powerful tool to test gravity in the strong-field regime and to probe the nature of compact objects. Next-generation ground-based detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-18 Andrea Maselli , Sophia Yi , Lorenzo Pierini , Vania Vellucci , Luca Reali , Leonardo Gualtieri , Emanuele Berti

Understanding the physical significance and spectral stability of black hole quasinormal modes is fundamental to high-precision spectroscopy with future gravitational wave detectors. Inspired by Mashhoon's idea of relating quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Sebastian H. Völkel

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

Recent studies have shown that quasinormal modes suffer from spectral instabilities, a frailty of black holes that leads to disproportional migration of their spectra in the complex plane when black-hole effective potentials are modified by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-16 Aubin Courty , Kyriakos Destounis , Paolo Pani

Perturbations of stars and black holes have been one of the main topics of relativistic astrophysics for the last few decades. They are of particular importance today, because of their relevance to gravitational wave astronomy. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Kostas D. Kokkotas , Bernd G. Schmidt

Black hole spectroscopy is the proposal to observe multiple quasinormal modes in the ringdown of a binary black hole merger. In addition to the fundamental quadrupolar mode, overtones and higher harmonics may be present and detectable in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-14 Iara Ota , Cecilia Chirenti

The resonant mode spectrum of the Kerr-Newman spacetime is presently unknown. These modes, called the quasinormal modes, play a central role in determining the stability of Kerr-Newman black holes and their response to perturbations. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Zachary Mark , Huan Yang , Aaron Zimmerman , Yanbei Chen

The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating black holes has great scientific potential. By carefully predicting the frequencies and amplitudes of black hole quasinormal modes and comparing them with gravitational-wave data from compact…

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

In this work, we have studied the quasinormal modes of a black hole in a model of the type $f(Q)=\underset{n}{\sum}a_{n}\left(Q-Q_{0}\right)^{n} $ in $f(Q)$ gravity by using a recently introduced method known as Bernstein spectral method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Ali Övgün , M. Koussour

We review the main results obtained in the literature on quasi-normal modes of compact stars and black holes, in the light of recent exciting developments of gravitational wave detectors. Quasi-normal modes are a fundamental feature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri

Quasinormal modes have played a prominent role in the discussion of perturbations of black holes, and the question arises whether they are as significant as normal modes are for self adjoint systems, such as harmonic oscillators. They can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Hans-Peter Nollert

We compute the spectrum of quasinormal frequencies of five-dimensional black holes obtained in noncommutative geometry. In particular, we study scalar perturbations of a massive scalar field adopting the 6th order WKB approximation. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-24 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ángel Rincón

Quasinormal modes and frequencies are the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a non-Hermitian differential operator. They hold crucial significance in the physics of black holes. The analysis of quasinormal modes of black holes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-22 Daniel Arean , David Garcia-Fariña , Karl Landsteiner

We study the stability of quasinormal modes (QNM) in asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes by means of a pseudospectrum analysis. The construction of the Schwarzschild QNM pseudospectrum reveals the following: (i) the stability of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 José Luis Jaramillo , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Lamis Al Sheikh

Black-hole spectroscopy, that is, measuring the characteristic frequencies and damping times of different modes in a black-hole ringdown, is a powerful probe for testing deviations from the general theory of relativity (GR). In this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-14 Costantino Pacilio , Swetha Bhagwat

Regular black holes, nonsingular solutions to gravitational collapse with quantum corrections, offer a compelling alternative to classical black holes with curvature singularities. In this work, we investigate how the presence of skewed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Chen Lan , Ying-Lei Tian , Hao Yang , Zhen-Xiao Zhang , Yan-Gang Miao