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Quasinormal modes characterize the final stage of a black hole merger. In this regime, spacetime curvature is high, these modes can be used to probe potential corrections to general relativity. In this paper, we utilize the effective field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Filipe S. Miguel

We study Bayesian inference of black hole ringdown modes for simulated binary black hole signals. We consider to what extent different fundamental ringdown modes can be identified in the context of black hole spectroscopy. Our simulated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Jahed Abedi , Collin D. Capano , Shilpa Kastha , Alexander H. Nitz , Yi-Fan Wang , Julian Westerweck , Alex B. Nielsen , Badri Krishnan

Exploring gravitational theories beyond general relativity (GR) with black hole (BH) spectroscopy requires accurate and flexible methods for computing their quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum. A popular method of choice is the higher-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Ruijing Tang , Nicola Franchini , Sebastian H. Völkel , Emanuele Berti

We revisit the computation of quasinormal modes (QNMs) of the Kerr black hole using a numerical approach exploiting a representation of the Teukolsky equation as a $2D$ elliptic partial differential equation. By combining the hyperboloidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-06 Jamil Assaad , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

The ringdown portion of a binary black hole merger consists of a sum of modes, each containing an infinite number of tones that are exponentially damped sinusoids. In principle, these can be measured as gravitational-waves with…

We compare four loop quantum gravity inspired black hole metrics near the Planck scale. Spin 0, 1/2, 1, and 2 field perturbations on these backgrounds are studied. The axial gravitational quasinormal modes are calculated and compared. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Douglas M. Gingrich

As the fingerprints of black holes, quasinormal modes are closely associated with many properties of black holes. Especially, the ringdown phase of gravitational waveforms from the merger of compact binary components can be described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Sen Yang , Wen-Di Guo , Qin Tan , Li Zhao , Yu-Xiao Liu

We investigate the quasinormal modes of several families of higher-dimensional regular black holes arising in gravitational theories that incorporate an infinite tower of higher-curvature corrections to Einstein gravity. Our analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Juan Pablo Arbelaez

An explicit example is found showing how a modified theory of gravity can be constrained with the ringdown signals from merger of binary black holes. This has been made possible by the fact that the modified gravitational theory considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 Jiahui Bao , Changfu Shi , Haitian Wang , Jian-dong Zhang , Yiming Hu , Jianwei Mei , Jun Luo

We provide a rigorous definition of quasinormal modes for the Kerr black hole. They are obtained as the discrete set of poles of the meromorphically continued cutoff resolvent. The construction combines the method of complex scaling near…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Thomas Stucker

Black hole spectroscopy is the program to measure the complex gravitational-wave frequencies of merger remnants, and to quantify their agreement with the characteristic frequencies of black holes computed at linear order in black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Vishal Baibhav , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Gregorio Carullo , Roberto Cotesta , Walter Del Pozzo , Francisco Duque

The quasinormal modes of black holes (BHs) in the large-angular-momentum limit can be computed within the eikonal approximation. This approximation is often extrapolated to low angular momentum to obtain a rough estimate of the dominant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Paolo Pani , Andrea P. Sanna

The relaxation of a distorted black hole to its final state provides important tests of general relativity within the reach of current and upcoming gravitational wave facilities. In black hole perturbation theory, this phase consists of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Gaurav Khanna

In this work, we have studied the quasinormal modes of a black hole in a model of the type $f(Q)=\underset{n}{\sum}a_{n}\left(Q-Q_{0}\right)^{n} $ in $f(Q)$ gravity by using a recently introduced method known as Bernstein spectral method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Ali Övgün , M. Koussour

The spin distribution of binary black hole mergers contains key information concerning the formation channels of these objects, and the astrophysical environments where they form, evolve and coalesce. To quantify the suitability of deep…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-27 Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Arnav Das

We revisit the modelling of black hole ringdown beyond General Relativity (GR), emphasizing the limitations of approaches that rely solely on shifted quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies. Starting from modified Teukolsky equations in such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Jacopo Lestingi , Giovanni D'Addario , Thomas P. Sotiriou

In recent years there has been an increased interest in neural networks, particularly with regard to their ability to approximate partial differential equations. In this regard, research has begun on so-called physics-informed neural…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Alan S. Cornell , Anele Ncube , Gerhard Harmsen

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) hold the potential for supplementing the existing set of techniques for solving differential equations that emerge in the study of black hole quasinormal modes. The present research investigated them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-13 Anele M Ncube , Gerhard E Harmsen , Alan S Cornell

We study the dynamical excitation of quasinormal modes (QNMs) through the plunge, merger and ringdown of an extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral into a Schwarzschild black hole, for generic orbital configurations. We work out the QNM causality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Marina De Amicis , Enrico Cannizzaro , Gregorio Carullo , Laura Sberna

We investigate the parametrized black hole quasinormal ringdown formalism, which is a robust framework used to analyze quasinormal modes in systems that closely resemble general relativity, paying particular attention to the higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-11 Shin'ichi Hirano , Masashi Kimura , Masahide Yamaguchi , Jiale Zhang