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Ultralight bosons are compelling dark-matter candidates. Both scalar and vector bosons can be produced through black hole superradiance, forming a boson cloud surrounding a rotating black hole. Self-interaction of bosons, together with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Hang Yang , Daiqin Su

Ultralight scalars can extract rotational energy from astrophysical black holes through superradiant instabilities, forming macroscopic boson clouds. This process is most efficient when the Compton wavelength of the boson is comparable to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-17 Emanuele Berti , Richard Brito , Caio F. B. Macedo , Guilherme Raposo , Joao Luis Rosa

Ultralight bosons are well-motivated particles from various physical and cosmological theories, and can be spontaneously produced during the superradiant process, forming a dense hydrogen-like cloud around the spinning black hole. After the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-04 Yan Cao , Yong Tang

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

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

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

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

Ultralight bosons can form clouds around rotating black holes if their Compton wavelength is comparable to the black hole size. The boson cloud spins down the black hole through a process called superradiance, lowering the black hole spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-11 Ken K. Y. Ng , Otto A. Hannuksela , Salvatore Vitale , Tjonnie G. F. Li

Superradiant clouds of ultralight bosons can leave an imprint on the gravitational waveform of black hole binaries through "ionization" and "resonances." We study the sequence of resonances as the binary evolves, and show that there are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-18 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Gianfranco Bertone

Several models of physics beyond the Standard Model predict the existence of new ultralight bosons. This thesis investigates a way to discover such particles through observations of gravitational waves from binary black holes. This is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-18 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli

Bosonic fields (within suitable mass range) may be collectively generated by rotating black holes through the black hole superradiance process. The resulting black hole is surrounded by a ``cloud" of particles whose wave function populates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Ao Guo , Jun Zhang , Huan Yang

Gravitational wave observation has the potential of probing ultralight bosonic fields such as axion. Axion forms a cloud around a rotating black hole (BH) by superradiant instability and should affect the gravitational waveform from binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Takuya Takahashi , Takahiro Tanaka

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

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

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

Based on the consideration of potential energy of the di-black-hole as a function of mass asymmetry (transfer) collective coordinate, the possibility of matter transfer between the black holes in a binary system is investigated. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-17 G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko , H. Lenske , V. V. Sargsyan

Ultralight bosons near rotating black holes can undergo significant growth through superradiant energy extraction, potentially reaching field values close to the Planck scale and transforming black holes into effective transducers for these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-17 Yifan Chen , Xiao Xue , Vitor Cardoso

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) are an exciting new probe of physics beyond the standard models of gravity and particle physics. One interesting possibility is provided by the so-called "gravitational atom," wherein a superradiant instability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-06 Daniel Baumann , Gianfranco Bertone , John Stout , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli

Light bosons, proposed as a possible solution to various problems in fundamental physics and cosmology, include a broad class of candidates for beyond the Standard Model physics, such as dilatons and moduli, wave dark matter and axion-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-14 Otto A. Hannuksela , Kaze W. K. Wong , Richard Brito , Emanuele Berti , Tjonnie G. F. Li
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