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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

Superradiant instabilities of rotating black holes can give rise to long-lived bosonic clouds, offering natural laboratories to probe ultralight particles across a wide range of parameter space. The presence of a companion can dramatically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Mateja Bošković , Rafael A. Porto , Matthias Koschnitzke

We study the gravitational-wave (GW) signatures of clouds of ultralight bosons around black holes (BHs) in binary inspirals. These clouds, which are formed via superradiance instabilities for rapidly rotating BHs, produce distinct effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-13 Daniel Baumann , Horng Sheng Chia , Rafael A. Porto

Superradiant clouds may develop around a rotating black hole, if there is a bosonic field with Compton wavelength comparable to the size of the black hole. In this paper, we investigate the effects of the cloud on the orbits of nearby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Jun Zhang , Huan Yang

Ultralight scalars can extract rotational energy from astrophysical black holes through superradiant instabilities, forming macroscopic boson clouds. This process is most efficient when the Compton wavelength of the boson is comparable to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-17 Emanuele Berti , Richard Brito , Caio F. B. Macedo , Guilherme Raposo , Joao Luis Rosa

Rotating black holes can produce superradiant clouds of ultralight bosons. When the black hole is part of a binary system, its cloud can undergo resonances and ionization. These processes leave a distinct signature on the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Gianfranco Bertone

Ultralight scalars can form superradiant clouds around rotating black holes. These may alter the dynamics of compact binaries and the ensuing waveform through orbital resonances and cloud ionization. We re-examine resonances involving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-22 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli

Superradiant instability of rotating black holes (BHs) leads to the formation of a cloud of ultralight bosons, such as axions. When the BH with the cloud belongs to a binary system and is in an inspiraling orbit, the resonant transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Takuya Takahashi , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka

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

Ultralight bosons are compelling dark-matter candidates. Both scalar and vector bosons can be produced through black hole superradiance, forming a boson cloud surrounding a rotating black hole. Self-interaction of bosons, together with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Hang Yang , Daiqin Su

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

Several models of physics beyond the Standard Model predict the existence of new ultralight bosons. This thesis investigates a way to discover such particles through observations of gravitational waves from binary black holes. This is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-18 Giovanni Maria Tomaselli

We study the imprints of new ultralight particles on the gravitational-wave signals emitted by binary black holes. Superradiant instabilities may create large clouds of scalar or vector fields around rotating black holes. The presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 Daniel Baumann , Horng Sheng Chia , Rafael A. Porto , John Stout

The superradiance instability of rotating black holes leads to the formation of an ultralight boson cloud with distinctive observational signatures, making black holes an effective probe of ultralight bosons. However, around black holes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hui-Yu Zhu , Xi Tong , Giorgio Manzoni , Yanjiao Ma

Ultralight bosons, as important candidates of dark matter, can condense around spinning black holes (BHs) to form long-lived ``boson clouds'' due to superradiance instability. The boson-BH system can be observed through gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Rong-Zhen Guo , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

Ultralight bosons can be excited around spinning black holes via black hole superradiance. These boson clouds may play an important role in the orbital evolution of binary black holes. In this work, we investigate the formation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Ao Guo , Qi-Yan Zhang , Huan Yang , Jun Zhang

Superradiant instabilities can trigger the formation of bosonic clouds around rotating black holes. If the bosonic field growth is sufficiently fast, these clouds could form shortly after a binary black hole merger. Such clouds are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-28 Shrobana Ghosh , Emanuele Berti , Richard Brito , Mauricio Richartz

The formation of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) is an unavoidable outcome of galaxy evolution via successive mergers. However, the mechanism that drives their orbital evolution from parsec separations down to the gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-04 Felipe G. Goicovic , Alberto Sesana , Jorge Cuadra , Federico Stasyszyn

Spinning black holes could produce ultralight particles via the superradiance instability. These particles form a dense cloud around the host black hole, introducing new opportunities for the detection of ultralight new physics. When the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Hyungjin Kim , Alessandro Lenoci

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
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