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Black holes located within a dark matter cloud can create overdensity regions known as dark matter spikes. The presence of spikes modifies the gravitational-wave signals from binary systems through changes in the gravitational potential or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-06 Nicholas Speeney , Andrea Antonelli , Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti

We consider constraints on $p$-wave dark matter in a dark matter spike surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of M87. Owing to the large mass of the black hole, and resulting large velocity dispersion for the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-29 Katharena Christy , Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick

The idea that quantum gravity effects might leak outside the horizon of a black hole has recently been intensively considered. In this study, we calculate the quasinormal modes as a function of the location and amplitude of a generic metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-16 Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau , Jeremy Martinon , Flora Moulin

We calculate the quasinormal modes of a nonsingular spherically symmetric black hole effective model with holonomy corrections. The model is based on quantum corrections inspired by loop quantum gravity. It is covariant and results in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Douglas M. Gingrich

This study investigates the effects of higher dimensions on the observable properties of Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes, focusing on the photonsphere, shadow radius, deflection angles, and quasinormal modes (QNMs). By extending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Nikko John Leo S. Lobos , Anele M. Ncube , Reggie C. Pantig , Alan S. Cornell

We investigate the (axial) quasinormal modes of black holes embedded in generic matter profiles. Our results reveal that the axial QNMs experience a redshift when the black hole is surrounded by various matter environments, proportional to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-10 Laura Pezzella , Kyriakos Destounis , Andrea Maselli , Vitor Cardoso

We study the quasinormal mode spectrum and grey-body factors of black holes in an effectively quantum-corrected spacetime, focusing on the influence of near-horizon modifications on observable quantities. Employing scalar, electromagnetic,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Bekir Can Lütfüoğlu , Erdinç Ulaş Saka , Abubakir Shermatov , Javlon Rayimbaev , Inomjon Ibragimov , Sokhibjan Muminov

We study the quasinormal modes, Hawking radiation and absorption cross-section of the Bardeen black hole surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter for a massless scalar field. Our results show that the oscillation frequency of quasinormal…

General Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Qi Sun , Qian Li , Yu Zhang , Qi-Quan Li

Quasinormal modes provide valuable information about the structure of spacetime outside a black hole. There is also a conjectured relationship between the highly damped quasinormal modes and the semi-classical spectrum of the horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 James Babb , Ramin G. Daghigh , Gabor Kunstatter

By combining the numerical solution of the nonlinear hydrodynamics equations with the solution of the linear inhomogeneous Zerilli-Moncrief and Regge-Wheeler equations we investigate the properties of the gravitational radiation emitted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandro Nagar , Olindo Zanotti , Jose A. Font , Luciano Rezzolla

Future ground-based gravitational wave observatories will be ideal probes of the environments surrounding black holes with masses $1 - 10\,\mathrm{M_\odot}$. Binary black hole mergers with mass ratios of order $q=m_2/m_1\lesssim10^{-3}$ can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Philippa S. Cole , Adam Coogan , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Gianfranco Bertone

We compute quasinormal mode frequencies for static limits of physical black holes - semi-classical black hole solutions to Einstein-Hilbert gravity characterized by the finite formation time of an apparent horizon and its weak regularity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-11 Fil Simovic , Daniel R. Terno

We have studied the quasinormal modes and the late-time tail behaviors of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations in the Schwarzschild black hole pierced by a cosmic string. Although the metric is locally identical to that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Songbai Chen , Bin Wang , Rekeng Su

We compute the quasinormal frequencies for scalar and electromagnetic perturbations of an improved Schwarzschild geometry in the framework of asymptotically safe gravity, which is one of the approaches to quantum gravity. Adopting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Angel Rincon , Grigoris Panotopoulos

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the exciting field of black hole quasi-normal modes and its capabilities to test general relativity in the 21st century. After motivating this line of research, we provide a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-04 Nicola Franchini , Sebastian H. Völkel

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are very appealing dark matter (DM) candidates. It is highly plausible though, should they exist, that they would not make up all of the DM. Several studies showed that if the rest of DM is made of thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati

The rapid advancement of gravitational wave astronomy in recent years has paved the way for the burgeoning development of black hole spectroscopy, which enhances the possibility of testing black holes by their quasinormal modes (QNMs). In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Che-Yu Chen , Yu-Hsien Kung , Pisin Chen

It has been suggested for a long time that dark matter would form a density spike around a black hole. However, no promising evidence has been observed so far to verify this theoretical suggestion. Here, we report the existence of a dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

The definition of matter states on spacelike hypersurfaces of a 1+1 dimensional black hole spacetime is considered. Because of small quantum fluctuations in the mass of the black hole, the usual approximation of treating the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel E. Ortiz

This research explores the quasinormal modes (QNMs) characteristics of charged black holes in a perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM) environment. Based on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of the M87* black hole shadow, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Qun Tan , Dong Liu , Jie Liang , Zheng-Wen Long