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We study the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of charged scalar in the static spherically symmetric black hole background near the event and cosmological horizon. Starting with numerical analysis of the QNMs of black hole in the dRGT massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-10 Takol Tangphati , Supakchai Ponglertsakul , Piyabut Burikham

The characteristic oscillations of black holes, as described by their quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum, play a fundamental role in testing general relativity with gravitational waves. The so-called parametrized QNM framework was introduced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Spyros Thomopoulos , Sebastian H. Völkel , Harald P. Pfeiffer

A direct detection of black hole formation in neutron star mergers would provide invaluable information about matter in neutron star cores and finite temperature effects on the nuclear equation of state. We study black hole formation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Arnab Dhani , David Radice , Jan Schütte-Engel , Susan Gardner , Bangalore Sathyaprakash , Domenico Logoteta , Albino Perego , Rahul Kashyap

We study the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a family of generalized black bounces interpolating between regular black holes and traversable wormhole solutions according to a single extra parameter $a$. Firstly, working with a generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Albert Duran-Cabacés , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo Interferometer Collaborations have now detected all three classes of compact binary mergers: binary black hole (BBH), binary neutron star (BNS), and neutron star-black…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-20 Richard Qiu , Plamen Krastev , Kiranjyot Gill , Edo Berger

Gravitational radiation from a slightly distorted black hole with ringdown waveform is well understood in general relativity. It provides a probe for direct observation of black holes and determination of their physical parameters, masses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Yoshiki Tsunesada , Nobuyuki Kanda , Hiroyuki Nakano , Daisuke Tatsumi , Masaki Ando , Misao Sasaki , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Hirotaka Takahashi

Gravitational-wave (GW) detection offers a novel approach to exploring intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). The GW signals from IMBH mergers mainly fall in the decihertz frequency band. The lunar-based GW detector, the Lunar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-18 Yue-Yan Dong , Ji-Yu Song , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

In this letter, we provide a novel test of general relativity based on ringdown analysis. The test is performed on agnostic models, where the postmerger signal is fitted with a superposition of damped sinusoids. If at least two modes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Nicola Franchini

Current state-of-the-art approaches to black hole (BH) dynamics, encompassing several effective approximation schemes, offer a remarkable control of the quantitative aspects of strong gravity. They also provide key insights into some…

We present a semi analytic forecast for the detection of intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) binaries with the space based detectors LISA (millihertz band) and AMIGO (deci hertz band). A redshift dependent population model is built from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Marcelo M. Lapola , Oswaldo D. Miranda

Many scenarios have been proposed for the origin of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that are found in the centres of most galaxies. Many of these formation scenarios predict a high-redshift population of intermediate-mass black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Joseph E. Plowman , Daniel C. Jacobs , Ronald W. Hellings , Shane L. Larson , Sachiko Tsuruta

Black-hole-binary coalescence is often divided into three stages: inspiral, merger and ringdown. The post-Newtonian (PN) approximation treats the inspiral phase, black-hole perturbation (BHP) theory describes the ringdown, and the nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-13 David A. Nichols , Yanbei Chen

The waveforms from binary black hole mergers include inspiral, merger, and ringdown parts. Usually, the inspiral waveform can be obtained by calibrating from post-Newtonian approximation; The merger and ringdown ones can be gotten from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Song Li , Wen-Biao Han

The population of black holes observed via gravitational waves currently covers the local universe up to a redshift $z\lesssim 1$, for the most massive merging binaries, or $z\lesssim 0.25$ for low-mass BH binaries (BBH). Evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Jam Sadiq , Thomas Dent , Ana Lorenzo-Medina

Gravitational wave (GW) detections of binary black holes (BBHs) have shown evidence for a dearth of component black holes with masses above $\sim50M_\odot$. This is consistent with expectations of a mass gap due to the existence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-16 Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel E. Holz

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational waves from the population of merging massive black holes binaries (MBHBs) throughout the Universe. The LISA data stream will feature many superposed signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Senwen Deng , Stanislav Babak , Sylvain Marsat

We discuss the extraction of information from detected binary black hole (BBH) coalescence gravitational waves, focusing on the merger phase that occurs after the gradual inspiral and before the ringdown. Our results are: (1) If numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Eanna E. Flanagan , Scott A. Hughes

Black hole spectroscopy is an important pillar when studying gravitational waves from black holes and enables tests of general relativity. Most of the gravitational-wave signals observed over the last decade originate from binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Oliver Steppohn , Sebastian H. Völkel , Tim Dietrich

The nonlinear nature of general relativity manifests prominently throughout the merger of two black holes, from the inspiral phase to the final ringdown. Notably, the quasi-normal modes generated during the ringdown phase display…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

Variations at the event horizon structure of a black hole will emit the signals of the gravitational wave echoes associated with the ringdown of the binary black hole merger. In this work, combining mass model of M87 and Einasto profile for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Dong Liu , Yi Yang , Zheng-Wen Long