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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

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

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

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

Spinning black holes could produce ultralight particles via the superradiance instability. These particles form a dense cloud around the host black hole, introducing new opportunities for the detection of ultralight new physics. When the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Hyungjin Kim , Alessandro Lenoci

The use of modern effective field theory techniques has sparked significant developments in many areas of physics, including the study of gravity. Case in point, such techniques have recently been used to show that binary black holes can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Leong Khim Wong

Superradiant instabilities of rotating black holes can give rise to long-lived bosonic clouds, offering natural laboratories to probe ultralight particles across a wide range of parameter space. The presence of a companion can dramatically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Mateja Bošković , Rafael A. Porto , Matthias Koschnitzke

Ultralight boson is one of the potential candidates for dark matter. If exists, it can be generated by a rapidly rotating black hole via superradiance, extracting the energy and angular momentum of the black hole and forming a boson cloud.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-15 Yao Guo , Wenjie Zhong , Yiqiu Ma , Daiqin Su

Ultralight boson clouds can form around black holes in binaries through superradiance, and undergo resonant level transitions at certain orbit frequencies. In this work, we investigate the gravitational waves emitted by the clouds during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-14 Si-Tong Peng , Jun Zhang

Ultralight scalars can form superradiant clouds around rotating black holes. These may alter the dynamics of compact binaries and the ensuing waveform through orbital resonances and cloud ionization. We re-examine resonances involving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-22 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli

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

Black holes in binaries with other compact objects can provide natural venues for indirect detection of axions or other ultralight fields. The superradiant instability associated with a rapidly spinning black hole leads to the creation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-10 Michael Kavic , Steven L. Liebling , Matthew Lippert , John H. Simonetti

We study the impact of a binary companion on black hole superradiance at orbital frequencies away from the gravitational-collider-physics (GCP) resonance bands. A superradiant state can couple to a strongly absorptive state via the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Hui-Yu Zhu

Given the stellar density near the galactic center, close encounters between compact object binaries and the supermassive black hole are a plausible occurrence. We present results from a numerical study of close to 13 million such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-04 Eric Addison , Pablo Laguna , Shane Larson

Rotating black holes can produce superradiant clouds of ultralight bosons. When the black hole is part of a binary system, its cloud can undergo resonances and ionization. These processes leave a distinct signature on the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Gianfranco Bertone

Rotating axisymmetric objects amplify incoming waves by superradiant scattering. When enclosed in a cavity, the repeated interaction of a confined field with the object may trigger superradiant instabilities. Rotating binaries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Diogo C. Ribeiro , Miguel Zilhão , Vitor Cardoso

This paper focuses on the dynamical implications of close supermassive black hole binaries both as an example of resonant phase mixing and as a potential explanation of inversions and other anomalous features observed in the luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henry E. Kandrup , Ioannis V. Sideris , Balsa Terzic , Courtlandt L. Bohn

Superradiance is a process by which massive bosonic particles can extract energy from spinning black holes, leading to the build up of a "cloud" if the particle has a Compton wavelength comparable to the black hole's Schwarzschild radius.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Zipeng Wang , Thomas Helfer , Katy Clough , Emanuele Berti

Superradiant instabilities can trigger the formation of bosonic clouds around rotating black holes. If the bosonic field growth is sufficiently fast, these clouds could form shortly after a binary black hole merger. Such clouds are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-28 Shrobana Ghosh , Emanuele Berti , Richard Brito , Mauricio Richartz
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