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We present results from fully nonlinear simulations of unequal mass binary black holes plunging from close separations well inside the innermost stable circular orbit with mass ratios q = M_1/M_2 = {1,0.85,0.78,0.55,0.32}, or equivalently,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Herrmann , I. Hinder , D. Shoemaker , P. Laguna

Recently the quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder gravitational collapse model has been proposed in loop quantum gravity, providing quantum-corrected Schwarzschild spacetimes as the exterior of the collapsing dust ball. In this paper, the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-20 Jinsong Yang , Cong Zhang , Yongge Ma

In this paper, we focus on the gravitational waves emitted by a stellar-mass object in a quasi-circular inspiral orbit around a central supermassive polymerized black hole in loop quantum gravity. Treating the stellar-mass object as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Sen Yang , Yu-Peng Zhang , Tao Zhu , Li Zhao , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study the inner-most stable circular orbit(ISCO) of Kerr black hole in MOdified gravity(Kerr-MOG black hole) which is one of the exact solution of the field equation of modified gravity in strong gravity regime. Kerr-MOG black hole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Hyun-Chul Lee , Yong-Jin Han

In this work, we report for the first time two repeated quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the light curve of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) S5 1044+71. This source was observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-23 Jun-Jie Wang , Ting-Feng Yi , Yangwei Zhang , He Lu , Yuncai Shen , Lisheng Mao , Liang Dong

This letter presents an assessment of quantum gravity effects on extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) for the rotating quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder (qOS) black hole. Employing the adiabatic evolution, we compute the gravitational wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Dan Zhang , Shulan Li , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu

In this work, we study gravitational wave emission from periodic orbits of test particles, analyze quasi periodic oscillations, and constrain the parameters of the static, spherically symmetric Einstein nonlinear Maxwell Yukawa black hole.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Oreeda Shabbir , Abubakir Shermatov , Bushra Majeed , Tehreem Zahra , Mubasher Jamil , Javlon Rayimbaev

The Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) program is briefly reviewed and one of its main applications, namely the counting of black hole entropy within the framework is considered. In particular, recent results for Planck size black holes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alejandro Corichi , Jacobo Diaz-Polo , Enrique Fernandez-Borja

We note that the recently discovered 450 Hz frequency in the X-ray flux of the black hole candidate GRO J1655-40 is in a 3:2 ratio to the previously known 300 Hz frequency of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in the same source. If the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Marek Artur Abramowicz , Wlodek Kluzniak

The research of superradiant instability in the realm of quantum gravity is a well-known topic, with many physicists and astronomers studying the potential impact it can have on gravitational waves, the structure of the universe, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-15 Sara Kanzi , İzzet Sakallı , Behnam Pourhassan

We consider Loop Quantum Gravity(LQG) motivated $4D$ polymerized black hole and study shadow, quasinormal modes, and Hawking radiation. We obtain analytical expressions of photonsphere radius and shadow radius and study their qualitative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Sohan Kumar Jha

We investigate strong gravitational lensing by a charged loop quantum gravity (LQG) black hole obtained through the polymerisation scheme of Borges \textit{et al.} \cite{Borges:2023fog}. These effective geometries replace the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Arun Kumar , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Sushant G. Ghosh

The multi-resonance orbital model of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) enables precise determination of the black hole dimensionless spin a if observed set of oscillations demonstrates three (or more) commensurable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-08 Andrea Kotrlova , Zdenek Stuchlik , Gabriel Torok

(abridged) In this paper we extend the idea suggested previously by Petri (2005a,b) that the high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations observed in low-mass X-ray binaries may be explained as a resonant oscillation of the accretion disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 J. Petri

We use the Relativistic Precession Model (RPM) (Stella et al. 1999a) and quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) observations from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer to derive constraints on the properties of the black holes that power these sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Katherine Rink , Ilaria Caiazzo , Jeremy Heyl

We develop a simple physical model to describe the most common type of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) seen in a number of accreting black hole systems, as well as the shape of the relativistically broadened iron emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Jeroen Homan , Jon M. Miller

In this paper we systematically study a model of spherically symmetric polymer black holes recently proposed by Gambini, Olmedo, and Pullin (GOP). Within the framework of loop quantum gravity, the quantum parameters in the GOP model depend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-09 Yu-Chen Liu , Jia-Xi Feng , Fu-Wen Shu , Anzhong Wang

We investigate the massless scalar field perturbations, including the quasinormal mode spectrum and the ringdown waveform, of a regular black hole spacetime that was derived via the Loop Quantum Gravity inspired polymer quantization of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Ramin G. Daghigh , Michael D. Green , Jodin C. Morey , Gabor Kunstatter

QPOs are a common feature in the X-ray power density spectrum of black hole binaries and a potentially powerful tool to probe the spacetime geometry around these objects. Here we discuss their constraining power to test the Kerr black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-22 Cosimo Bambi , Sourabh Nampalliwar

We consider the behavior of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) in the magnetic field near "dirty" (surrounded by matter) axially-symmetric black holes. The cases of near-extremal, extremal and nonextremal black holes are analyzed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-08 O. B. Zaslavskii