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We carry out the first computation of gravitational quasinormal modes of black holes with arbitrary rotation in a theory with higher-derivative corrections. Our analysis focuses on a recently identified quartic-curvature theory that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Pablo A. Cano , Marina David , Guido van der Velde

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the exciting field of black hole quasi-normal modes and its capabilities to test general relativity in the 21st century. After motivating this line of research, we provide a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-04 Nicola Franchini , Sebastian H. Völkel

Much of our physical intuition about black hole quasinormal modes in general relativity comes from the eikonal/geometric optics approximation. According to the well-established eikonal model, the fundamental quasinormal mode represents…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Kostas Glampedakis , Hector O. Silva

The traditional approach to perturbations of nonrotating black holes in General Relativity uses the reformulation of the equations of motion into a radial second-order Schr\"odinger-like equation, whose asymptotic solutions are elementary.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 David Langlois , Karim Noui , Hugo Roussille

We have studied quasinormal modes of scalar perturbations of a black hole in massive gravity. The parameters of the theory, such as the mass of the black hole, the scalar charge of the black hole and the spherical harmonic index is varied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Sharmanthie Fernando , Tyler Clark

It has long been known that null unstable geodesics are related to the characteristic modes of black holes-- the so called quasinormal resonances. The basic idea is to interpret the free oscillations of a black hole in the eikonal limit in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Shahar Hod

The detection of gravitational waves resulting by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration has inaugurated a new era in gravitational physics, providing an opportunity to test general relativity and its modifications in the strong gravity regime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Pratik Wagle , Dongjun Li , Yanbei Chen , Nicolas Yunes

Gravitational waves offer new ways to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime, including tests involving the ringdown phase of binary black hole mergers, characterized by oscillating and quickly decaying quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-21 Dongjun Li , Pratik Wagle , Yanbei Chen , Nicolás Yunes

We calculate the quasinormal modes of a nonsingular spherically symmetric black hole effective model with holonomy corrections. The model is based on quantum corrections inspired by loop quantum gravity. It is covariant and results in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Douglas M. Gingrich

Existing constraints on the graviton mass from gravitational-wave detections rely on the phase difference developed between different frequencies during the propagation. Effects on the quasinormal-mode frequencies of the black-hole ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-18 Ka-Wai Chung , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

The spherically symmetric deformation of the Schwarzschild solution owing to the quantum corrections to gravity is known as Kazakov-Solodukhin black-hole metric. Neglecting non-spherical deformations of the background the problem was solved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-20 R. A. Konoplya

In an effective-field-theory framework for gravity, black-hole quasinormal mode spectra acquire corrections in quadratic-curvature, scalar-tensor extensions of general relativity. Previous calculations of such corrections were limited to…

We study the perturbations to General Relativistic black holes (i.e. those without scalar hair) in Horndeski scalar-tensor gravity. First, we derive the equations of odd and even parity perturbations of both the metric and scalar field in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Oliver J. Tattersall , Pedro G. Ferreira

The idea that quantum gravity effects might leak outside the horizon of a black hole has recently been intensively considered. In this study, we calculate the quasinormal modes as a function of the location and amplitude of a generic metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-16 Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau , Jeremy Martinon , Flora Moulin

Black holes have their proper oscillations, which are called the quasi-normal modes. The proper oscillations of astrophysical black holes can be observed in the nearest future with the help of gravitational wave detectors. Quasi-normal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-26 Alexander Zhidenko

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

Treating the Teukolsky perturbation equation numerically as a 2+1 PDE and smearing the singularities in the particle source term by the use of narrow Gaussian distributions, we have been able to reproduce earlier results for equatorial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ramon Lopez-Aleman , Gaurav Khanna , Jorge Pullin

We study quasinormal modes related to gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations of spherically symmetric charged black holes in nonlinear electrodynamics. Beyond the linear Maxwell electrodynamics, we consider a class of Lagrangian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-07 Kimihiro Nomura , Daisuke Yoshida

Parametric deviations of quasinormal modes~(QNMs) is a common feature of beyond General Relativity (GR) theories. For theories with additional degrees of freedom, such as scalars and vectors, new family of modes might appear, usually called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-08 Orival R. de Medeiros , Mateus Malato Corrêa , Caio F. B. Macedo

We compute the spectrum of linearized gravitational excitations of black holes with substantial angular momentum in the presence of higher-derivative corrections to general relativity. We do so perturbatively to leading order in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Pablo A. Cano , Kwinten Fransen , Thomas Hertog , Simon Maenaut