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We present a comprehensive study of the Kerr-Newman quasinormal mode spectrum in the Dudley-Finley approximation, where the linear gravitoelectromagnetic perturbations are decoupled by "freezing" either one of the fields to its background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Sagnik Saha , Hector O. Silva

We present numerical results from three-dimensional evolutions of scalar perturbations of Kerr black holes. Our simulations make use of a high-order accurate multi-block code which naturally allows for fixed adaptivity and smooth inner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ernst Nils Dorband , Emanuele Berti , Peter Diener , Erik Schnetter , Manuel Tiglio

The quasinormal modes of metric perturbations in asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes in the Lovelock model are calculated for different spacetime dimensions and higher orders of curvature. It is analytically established that in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 C. B. Prasobh , V. C. Kuriakose

We investigate the pseudospectrum of the Kerr black hole, which indicates the instability of the spectrum of quasinormal modes (QNMs) of the Kerr black hole. Methodologically, we use the hyperboloidal framework to cast the QNM problem into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Rong-Gen Cai , Li-Ming Cao , Jia-Ning Chen , Zong-Kuan Guo , Liang-Bi Wu , Yu-Sen Zhou

Recent studies have shown that rotating black holes can undergo spontaneous scalarization, leading to deviations from general relativity in the strong-field regime. We present the first nonperturbative calculation of the quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Wei Xiong , Peng-Cheng Li

We present new analytic results on black hole perturbation theory. Our results are based on a novel relation to four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. We propose an exact version of Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-12 Gleb Aminov , Alba Grassi , Yasuyuki Hatsuda

We present results from a new code for computing gravitational perturbations of the Kerr geometry. This new code carefully maintains high precision to allow us to obtain high-accuracy solutions for the gravitational quasinormal modes of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Gregory B. Cook , Maxim Zalutskiy

We derive an expression for the quasinormal modes of scalar perturbations in near extreme d-dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black holes. We show that, in the near extreme limit, the dynamics of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Molina

A scalar field in four-dimensional deSitter spacetime (dS_4) has quasinormal modes which are singular on the past horizon of the south pole and decay exponentially towards the future. These are found to lie in two complex highest-weight…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Daniel L. Jafferis , Alexandru Lupsasca , Vyacheslav Lysov , Gim Seng Ng , Andrew Strominger

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 calculate the spectrum of quasinormal modes of slowly rotating Kerr-Newman black holes. Using a perturbative double expansion method, second order in rotation and first order in non-radial perturbations, we obtain the system of equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-20 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo

Quasinormal modes are eigenmodes of dissipative systems. Perturbations of classical gravitational backgrounds involving black holes or branes naturally lead to quasinormal modes. The analysis and classification of the quasinormal spectra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Andrei O. Starinets

We study an inverse resonance problem for the scalar wave equation on the Kerr-de Sitter family. In a compact subextremal slow-rotation regime and at a fixed overtone index, high-frequency quasinormal modes admit semiclassical quantization…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Ruiliang Li

Stability criteria of nearly extreme black holes in the perturbations level is one of the interesting issues in gravitational systems. Considering the nearly extreme conformal-de Sitter black holes, in this paper, we obtain an exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Mehrab Momennia , Seyed Hossein Hendi

Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes are crucial in understanding the ringdown phase after a merger. While for Kerr black holes these modes have been known for a long time, their calculation has remained a challenge in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

Quasinormal frequencies of electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations in asymptotically AdS spacetime can be identified with poles of the corresponding real-time Green's functions in a holographically dual finite temperature field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Pavel K. Kovtun , Andrei O. Starinets

We calculate high-order quasinormal modes with large imaginary frequencies for electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations in nearly extremal Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes. Our results show that for low-order quasinormal modes, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shijun Yoshida , Toshifumi Futamase

Quasinormal modes and frequencies are the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a non-Hermitian differential operator. They hold crucial significance in the physics of black holes. The analysis of quasinormal modes of black holes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-22 Daniel Arean , David Garcia-Fariña , Karl Landsteiner

We present an exact expression for the quasinormal modes of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations of a near extremal Scwarzschild-de Sitter black hole and we show why a previous approximation holds exactly in this near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Vitor Cardoso , Jose' P. S. Lemos

We study analytically the highly damped quasinormal modes of Kerr black holes in the small angular momentum limit. To check the previous analytic calculations in the literature, which use a combination of radial and tortoise coordinates, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-15 Ramin G. Daghigh , Michael D. Green , Brian W. Mulligan