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Gravitational waves (GWs) from massive black hole (MBH) mergers will provide a novel way to probe the high-redshift universe and are key to understanding galactic dynamics and evolution. In this work, we analyze MBH mergers, their GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Sourabh Magare , Abhinav Roy , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Nishikanta Khandai , R. Srianand

The ringdown of a perturbed black hole (BH) can be described as a superposition of quasinormal modes (QNMs), whose frequencies are determined by the spacetime geometry while their amplitudes depend also on the perturbing source. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Alejandro Svyatkovskyy Kholyavka , Jose Antonio León Vega , Samuel Gómez Gómez , Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Sayak Datta

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect the stellar-mass binary black holes (SBBHs) inspiralling in the low-frequency band, which exist in several years before the merger. Accurate GW waveforms in the inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-09 Jie Wu , Jin Li , Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao

Spherical harmonic modes of gravitational waveforms for inspiraling compact binaries in eccentric orbits from post-Newtonian (PN) theory accurate to third post-Newtonian order, and those extracted from numerical relativity (NR) simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Abhishek Chattaraj , Tamal RoyChowdhury , Divyajyoti , Chandra Kant Mishra , Anshu Gupta

The detection of the least damped quasi-normal mode from the remnant of the gravitational wave event GW150914 realised the long sought possibility to observationally study the properties of quasi-stationary black hole spacetimes through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Gregorio Carullo , Walter Del Pozzo , John Veitch

Hierarchical mergers in a dense environment are one of the primary formation channels of intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) binary system. We expect that the resulting massive binary system will exhibit mass asymmetry. The emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-05 Kritti Sharma , Koustav Chandra , Archana Pai

The gravitational wave observations of colliding black holes have opened a new window into the unexplored extreme gravity sector of physics, where the gravitational fields are immensely strong, non-linear, and dynamical. 10 binary black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

We construct compact and high accuracy Reduced Basis (RB) representations of single and multiple quasinormal modes (QNMs). The RB method determines a hierarchical and relatively small set of the most relevant waveforms. We find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Sarah Caudill , Scott E. Field , Chad R. Galley , Frank Herrmann , Manuel Tiglio

When two black holes merge, the late stage of gravitational wave emission is a superposition of exponentially damped sinusoids. According to the black hole no-hair theorem, this ringdown spectrum depends only on the mass and angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-12 Collin D. Capano , Miriam Cabero , Julian Westerweck , Jahed Abedi , Shilpa Kastha , Alexander H. Nitz , Yi-Fan Wang , Alex B. Nielsen , Badri Krishnan

It is known that the nonstrictly thermal character of the Hawking radiation spectrum harmonizes Hawking radiation with black hole (BH) quasi-normal modes (QNM). This paramount issue has been recently analyzed in the framework of both…

General Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Christian Corda , Seyed Hossein Hendi , Reza Katebi , Nathan O. Schmidt

The ringdown signal emitted during a binary black hole coalescence can be modeled as a linear superposition of the characteristic damped modes of the remnant black hole that get excited during the merger phase. While checking the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-17 Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Swetha Bhagwat , Sumit Kumar , Paolo Pani

Three-dimensional simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) are performed in the framework of full general relativity. We pay particular attention to the black hole (BH) formation case and to the resulting mass of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We show that Laser Interferometer Space Antenna can uniquely identify the sites of intermediate-mass binary black hole (IMBBH) mergers if they occur in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) disks with a gas density $\rho\geq10^{-12} \, {\rm g/cc}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-16 Poulami Dutta Roy , Parthapratim Mahapatra , Anuradha Samajdar , K. G. Arun

The binary black hole signal GW250114, the clearest gravitational wave detected to date, offers a unique opportunity to test general relativity in the relativistic strong-gravity regime. How well does GW250114 agree with Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Leonardo Grimaldi , Elisa Maggio , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) have not been detected beyond any reasonable doubt through either dynamical or accretion signatures. Gravitational waves (GWs) represent an unparalleled opportunity to survey the sky and detect mergers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Giacomo Fragione , Abraham Loeb

Gravitational radiation arising from the inspiral and merger of binary black holes (BBH's) is a promising candidate for detection by kilometer-scale interferometric gravitational wave observatories. This paper discusses a serious obstacle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Patrick R. Brady , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Kip S. Thorne

It is expected that all astrophysical black holes in equilibrium are well described by the Kerr solution. Moreover, any black hole far away from equilibrium, such as one initially formed in a compact binary merger or by the collapse of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-14 Pierre Mourier , Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Daniel Pook-Kolb , Badri Krishnan , Erik Schnetter

During binary black hole (BBH) mergers, energy and momenta are carried away from the binary system as gravitational radiation. Access to the radiated energy and momenta allows us to predict the properties of the remnant black hole. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Tousif Islam , Scott E. Field , Gaurav Khanna

In the new era of gravitational wave (GW) and multi-messenger astrophysics, the detection of a GW signal from the coalescence of a black hole - neutron star (BHNS) binary remains a highly anticipated discovery. This kind of system is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 C. Barbieri , O. S. Salafia , A. Perego , M. Colpi , G. Ghirlanda

After black holes collide, the remnant settles to a stationary state by emitting gravitational waves. Once non-linearities subside, these ringdown waves are dominated by exponentially-damped sinusoids, or quasinormal modes. We develop a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-05 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Nicolas Yunes