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An axion cloud surrounding a supermassive black hole can be naturally produced through the superradiance process. Its existence can be examined by the axion induced birefringence effect. It predicts an oscillation of the electric vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-29 Yifan Chen , Chunlong Li , Yosuke Mizuno , Jing Shu , Xiao Xue , Qiang Yuan , Yue Zhao , Zihan Zhou

Ultralight boson is one of the potential candidates for dark matter. If exists, it can be generated by a rapidly rotating black hole via superradiance, extracting the energy and angular momentum of the black hole and forming a boson cloud.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-15 Yao Guo , Wenjie Zhong , Yiqiu Ma , Daiqin Su

This paper explores how time-varying increases in mass accretion onto rapidly spinning black holes influence their long-term spin evolution when affected by superradiance - a process where energy is extracted from the black hole by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Adithya Nandakumar , Ricarda S. Beckmann , Vid Irsic

Gravitational wave observation has the potential of probing ultralight bosonic fields such as axion. Axion forms a cloud around a rotating black hole (BH) by superradiant instability and should affect the gravitational waveform from binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Takuya Takahashi , Takahiro Tanaka

Superradiant clouds of ultralight bosons can leave an imprint on the gravitational waveform of black hole binaries through "ionization" and "resonances." We study the sequence of resonances as the binary evolves, and show that there are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-18 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Gianfranco Bertone

We explore the stimulated emission of photons in non-spherical axion clusters with or without the axion source from the superradiance of a rotating black hole (BH). In particular, we focus on the cluster with the initial axion distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Liang Chen , Da Huang , Chao-Qiang Geng

Long-lived configurations of massive scalar fields around black holes may form if the coupling between the mass of the scalar field and the mass of the black hole is very small. In this work we analyze the effect of self-interaction in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Alejandro Aguilar-Nieto , Víctor Jaramillo , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Darío Núñez

Ultralight bosons, predicted in scenarios beyond the Standard Model and viable dark matter (DM) candidates, can form superradiant clouds around spinning black holes influencing their dynamics. Using century-long monitored OJ287 supermassive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-14 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Volodymyr Takhistov , Hui-Yu Zhu

We show that the existence of clouds of ultralight particles surrounding black holes during their cosmological history as members of a binary system can leave a measurable imprint on the distribution of masses and orbital eccentricities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-18 Mateja Bošković , Matthias Koschnitzke , Rafael A. Porto

Baryon interactions with bosonic dark matter are constrained by the potential for dark matter-rich neutron stars to collapse into black holes. We consider the effect of dark matter self-interactions and dark matter annihilation on these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-22 Joseph Bramante , Keita Fukushima , Jason Kumar

An inhomogeneous pseudo-scalar field configuration behaves like an optically active medium. Consequently, if a light ray passes through an axion cloud surrounding a Kerr black hole, it may experience a polarization-dependent bending. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-16 Alexis D. Plascencia , Alfredo Urbano

Massive bosons, such as light scalars and vector bosons, can lead to instabilities of rotating black holes by the superradiance effect, which extracts energy and angular momentum from rapidly-rotating black holes effectively. This process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-03 Lei Zu , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

Collisions and interactions between gas-rich galaxies are thought to be pivotal stages in their formation and evolution, causing the rapid production of new stars, and possibly serving as a mechanism for fueling supermassive black holes…

Light bosonic degrees of freedom have become a serious candidate for dark matter. The evolution of these fields around curved spacetimes is poorly understood but is expected to display interesting effects. In particular, the interaction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-20 Helvi Witek , Vitor Cardoso , Akihiro Ishibashi , Ulrich Sperhake

\textit{Superradiance} can trigger the formation of an ultra-light boson cloud around a spinning black hole. Once formed, the boson cloud is expected to emit a nearly periodic, long-duration, gravitational-wave signal. For boson masses in…

We study the impact of a binary companion on black hole superradiance at orbital frequencies away from the gravitational-collider-physics (GCP) resonance bands. A superradiant state can couple to a strongly absorptive state via the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Hui-Yu Zhu

Light bosonic fields may suffer an instability around a rotating compact object. This process, known as superradiance, leads to the exponential amplification of the field around a black hole or neutron star, while the spin of the central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Francesca Chadha-Day

Gravitational waves (GWs) are an exciting new probe of physics beyond the standard models of gravity and particle physics. One interesting possibility is provided by the so-called "gravitational atom," wherein a superradiant instability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-06 Daniel Baumann , Gianfranco Bertone , John Stout , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli

Core collapse, a process associated with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models, can increase the central density of halos by orders of magnitude with observable consequences for dwarf galaxy properties and gravitational lensing.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-06 Vinh Tran , Xuejian Shen , Daniel Gilman , Mark Vogelsberger , Stephanie O'Neil , Donghua Xiong , Jiayi Hu , Ziang Wu

Superradiant instability of ultralight bosons can produce clouds around rotating black holes, whose continuous gravitational wave (GW) emission is a promising observational target. Precise predictions of the signal frequency and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Takuya Takahashi