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We revisit the spectrum of linear axisymmetric gravitational perturbations of the (near-)extreme Kerr black hole. Our aim is to characterise those perturbations that are responsible for the deviations away from extremality, and to contrast…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Alejandra Castro , Victor Godet , Joan Simón , Wei Song , Boyang Yu

The perturbations of the Kerr metric and the miracle of their exact solutions play a critical role in the comparison of predictions of general relativity with astrophysical observations of compact massive objects. The differential equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

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

In the presence of non-minimal gravitational couplings, matter field perturbations on a static black hole spacetime may develop unphysical poles in their linearized equations. Physical solutions confined in the domain between the event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Hsu-Wen Chiang , Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Aofei Sang

We investigate linear, spin-field perturbations of Kerr black holes in the extremal limit throughout the complex-frequency domain. We calculate quasi-normal modes of extremal Kerr, as well as of near-extremal Kerr, via a novel approach:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 Marc Casals , Luís F. Longo Micchi

A Kerr black hole with mass $M$ and angular momentum $J$ satisfies the extremality inequality $|J| \le M^2$. In the presence of matter and/or gravitational radiation, this bound needs to be reformulated in terms of local measurements of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Tanja Bode , Pablo Laguna , Richard A. Matzner

A maximally rotating Kerr black hole is said to be extremal. In this paper we introduce the corresponding restrictions for isolated and dynamical horizons. These reduce to the standard notions for Kerr but in general do not require the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Booth , Stephen Fairhurst

Working in a semi-classical setting, we consider solutions of the Einstein equations that exhibit light trapping in finite time according to distant observers. In spherical symmetry, we construct near-horizon quantities from the assumption…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Pravin K. Dahal , Fil Simovic , Ioannis Soranidis , Daniel R. Terno

The ringdown of perturbed black holes has been studied since the 1970s, but until recently, studies have focused on linear perturbations. There is now burgeoning interest in nonlinear perturbative effects during ringdown. Here, using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Patrick Bourg , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Andrew Spiers , Benjamin Leather , Bonga Béatrice , Adam Pound

The quasinormal mode spectrum of gravitational waves emitted during the black hole ringdown relaxation phase, following the merger of a black hole binary, is a crucial target of gravitational wave astronomy. By considering causality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

The equilibrium configurations between a Schwarzschild black hole and a hyperextreme Kerr object are shown to be described by a three-parameter subfamily of the extended double-Kerr solution. For this subfamily, its Ernst potential and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-06 V. S. Manko , E. Ruiz

A model of nonlinear electrodynamics with two parameters, coupled with general relativity, is investigated. We study the magnetized black hole and obtain solutions. The asymptotic of the metric and mass functions at $r\rightarrow\infty$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-24 S. I. Kruglov

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

We consider solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations which arise from smooth initial data on a hypersurface slightly inside a dynamical black hole settling down to a subextremal Kerr black hole, and satisfying a precise non-linear Price's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Sebastian Gurriaran

We prove global existence and decay for small-data solutions to a class of quasilinear wave equations on a wide variety of asymptotically flat spacetime backgrounds, allowing in particular for the presence of horizons, ergoregions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Mihalis Dafermos , Gustav Holzegel , Igor Rodnianski , Martin Taylor

Black hole (BH) solutions endowed with nontrivial scalar or matter fields - commonly known as hairy black holes - have attracted significant interest in recent years. They admit extra parameters beyond mass, charge, and angular momentum,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Anirban Dasgupta , Supragyan Priyadarshinee , Indrani Banerjee , Subhash Mahapatra

The gravitational Stefan-Boltzmann law is considered for the Kerr black hole in the weak-field limit. The energy-momentum tensor predicted by Teleparallelism Equivalent to General Relativity (TEGR) is used in the Thermo Field Dynamics (TFD)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-06 S. C. Ulhoa , A. F. Santos , E. P. Spaniol , Faqir C. Khanna

We study the quasi-normal modes of the charged scalar perturbations in the background of the Einstein-Maxwell-aether black hole through three methods (WKB method, continued fraction method, generalized eigenvalue method). Then we propose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Wei Xiong , Peng Liu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Chao Niu

We consider solutions to the linear wave equation in the interior region of extremal Kerr black holes. We show that axisymmetric solutions can be extended continuously beyond the Cauchy horizon and moreover that, if we assume suitably fast…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Dejan Gajic

In a recent paper (arXiv:1410.0694) Zilh\~ao, Cardoso, Herdeiro, Lehner, and Sperhake have studied the nonlinear stability of Kerr-Newman black holes. We show that their numerical results for the time evolutions of the spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Shahar Hod