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The detection of quadratic quasi-normal modes would provide a direct probe into black hole nonlinear perturbations. We report the first observational evidence of a set of quadratic quasi-normal modes in the gravitational-wave ringdown of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-12 Yi-Fan Wang , Sizheng Ma , Neev Khera , Huan Yang

The ringdown phase of a gravitational wave signal from a binary black hole merger offers a unique laboratory for testing general relativity in the strong-field regime and probing the properties of the final remnant black hole. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Hai-Tian Wang , Shao-Peng Tang , Peng-Cheng Li , Yi-Zhong Fan

While black hole perturbation theory predicts a rich quasi-normal mode structure, technical challenges have limited the numerical study of excitations to the fundamental, lowest order modes caused by the coalescence of black holes. Here, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Lionel London , James Healy , Deirdre Shoemaker

We study how quasinormal-mode frequencies may encode information about the effective matter source responsible for black-hole hair. Using the established eikonal correspondence between quasinormal modes and unstable null geodesics, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Ariadna Uxue Palomino Ylla , Kosuke Makino , Akane Tanaka , Akihiro Ishibashi , Chul-Moon Yoo

Symmergent gravity is an emergent gravity framework in which gravity emerges guided by gauge invariance, accompanied by new particles, and reconciled with quantum fields. In this paper, we perform a detailed study of the quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Ali Övgün , Durmuş Demir

Due to the nature of gravity, non-linear effects are left imprinted in the quasi-normal modes generated in the ringdown phase of the merger of two black holes. We offer an analytical treatment of the quasi-normal modes at second-order in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Davide Perrone , Thomas Barreira , Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

We investigate the quasinormal mode and greybody factor of Bardeen black holes with a string clouds by WKB approximation and verify them by Prony algorithm. We found that the imaginary part of the quasinormal modes spectra is always…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-09 Yunlong Liu , Xiangdong Zhang

We present an analytical and numerical investigation of the quasinormal excitation factors of ultracompact horizonless objects. These systems possess long lived quasinormal modes with extremely small imaginary parts, originating from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Romeo Felice Rosato , Shauvik Biswas , Sumanta Chakraborty , Paolo Pani

The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating black holes has great scientific potential. By carefully predicting the frequencies and amplitudes of black hole quasinormal modes and comparing them with gravitational-wave data from compact…

Black hole (BH) spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful approach to extract spacetime information from gravitational wave (GW) observed signals. Yet, quasinormal mode (QNM) spectral instability under high wave-number perturbations has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 José Luis Jaramillo , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Lamis Al Sheikh

Quasinormal modes are excited during the ringdown phase of black holes after merger. Determination of quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes in alternative theories of gravity has remained a challenge for a long time. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

The general parametrization of spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat black-hole spacetimes in arbitrary metric theories of gravity was suggested in [3]. The parametrization is based on the continued fraction expansion in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

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

We study the dynamics of a massive scalar field in the background of the Hayward black hole, which can be interpreted both as a regular spacetime and as an effective geometry arising from Asymptotically Safe gravity. The quasinormal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Alexey Dubinsky

A correspondence between two distinct spectral problems, quasinormal modes and grey-body factors, has recently been established for a wide class of black holes. Here, we demonstrate that a similar correspondence exists for a broad class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 S. V. Bolokhov , Milena Skvortsova

Black hole spectroscopy is a powerful tool to probe the Kerr nature of astrophysical compact objects and their environment. The observation of multiple ringdown modes in gravitational waveforms could soon lead to high-precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Kyriakos Destounis , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , José Luis Jaramillo

We propose two frequency-domain filters to analyze ringdown signals of binary black hole mergers. The first rational filter is constructed based on a set of (arbitrary) quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of the remnant black holes, whereas the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Sizheng Ma , Keefe Mitman , Ling Sun , Nils Deppe , François Hébert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Jordan Moxon , William Throwe , Nils L. Vu , Yanbei Chen

We investigate the stability of QNM spectra and greybody factors in the Schwarzschild black hole by approximating the Regge-Wheeler potential with a piecewise parabolic form and treating the deviation as a perturbation. We find that QNM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-04 Libo Xie , Liang-Bi Wu , Zong-Kuan Guo

It is commonly believed that the ringdown signal from a binary coalescence provides a conclusive proof for the formation of an event horizon after the merger. This expectation is based on the assumption that the ringdown waveform at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-19 Vitor Cardoso , Edgardo Franzin , Paolo Pani

In the aftermath of a binary black hole merger event, the gravitational wave signal emitted by the remnant black hole is modeled as a superposition of damped sinusoids known as quasinormal modes. While the dominant quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-18 Sophia Yi , Adrien Kuntz , Enrico Barausse , Emanuele Berti , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Konstantinos Kritos , Andrea Maselli