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Recent gravitational wave (GW) observations have enabled us to look beyond the standard paradigm of gravitational physics, namely general relativity (GR). Along with the mass and the angular momentum, which typical astrophysical black holes…

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Robustly measuring binary black hole spins via gravitational waves is key to understanding these systems' astrophysical origins, but remains challenging -- especially for high-mass systems, whose signals are short and dominated by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Simona J. Miller , Maximiliano Isi , Katerina Chatziioannou , Vijay Varma , Sophie Hourihane

We calculate the evolution and gravitational-wave emission of a spinning compact object inspiraling into a substantially more massive (non-rotating) black hole. We extend our previous model for a non-spinning binary [Phys. Rev. D 93,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Niels Warburton , Thomas Osburn , Charles R. Evans

We describe and study an instantaneous definition of eccentricity to be applied at the initial moment of full numerical simulations of binary black holes. The method consists of evaluating the eccentricity at the moment of maximum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Alessandro Ciarfella , James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano

In this paper, we investigate the optical appearance of a regular static spherically symmetric hairy black hole within the context of Minkowski deformation governed by the parameter \(\alpha\). This black hole describes a hairy black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-23 Xilong Yang , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

The detection of gravitational-wave signals from coalescing eccentric binary black holes would yield unprecedented information about the formation and evolution of compact binaries in specific scenarios, such as dynamical formation in dense…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Yoshinta Setyawati , Frank Ohme

The inspiral-merger-ringdown (IMR) consistency test checks the consistency of the final mass and final spin of a binary black hole merger remnant, independently inferred via the inspiral and merger-ringdown parts of the waveform. As…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-07 Sajad A. Bhat , Pankaj Saini , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun

We present a Bayesian parameter-estimation pipeline to measure the properties of inspiralling stellar-mass black hole binaries with LISA. Our strategy (i) is based on the coherent analysis of the three noise-orthogonal LISA data streams,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-23 Riccardo Buscicchio , Antoine Klein , Elinore Roebber , Christopher J. Moore , Davide Gerosa , Eliot Finch , Alberto Vecchio

Black hole (BH) shadow observations and gravitational wave astronomy have become crucial approaches for exploring BH physics and testing gravitational theories in extreme environments. This paper investigates the charged black hole with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

The black hole uniqueness and the no-hair theorems imply that the quasinormal spectrum of any astrophysical black hole is determined solely by its mass and spin. The countably infinite number of quasinormal modes of a Kerr black hole are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-31 Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Swetha Bhagwat , Paolo Pani , Valeria Ferrari

In this paper, we investigate the detectability of secondary spin in the extreme mass ratio inspirals system within a modified gravity model coupled with a scalar field. The central black hole, which reduces to a Kerr one, is circularly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Hong Guo , Chao Zhang , Yunqi Liu , Rui-Hong Yue , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang

We model the binary black hole system OJ287 as a spinning primary and a non-spinning secondary. It is assumed that the primary has an accretion disk which is impacted by the secondary at specific times. These times are identified as major…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Valtonen , S. Mikkola , H. J. Lehto , T. Hyvönen , K. Nilsson , D. Merritt , A. Gopakumar , H. Rampadarath , R. Hudec , M. Basta , R. Saunders

The gravitational-wave event GW231123_135430 is the heaviest binary black hole system observed by the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA Collaboration to date, with the initial analysis indicating the individual black hole masses lie within or above the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Aasim Jan , Sophia Nicolella , Deirdre Shoemaker , Richard O'Shaughnessy

The spins of a number of supermassive and stellar-mass black holes have been measured based on detections of thermal continuum emission and relativistically broadened iron lines in their x-ray spectra. Likewise, quasiperiodic variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Tim Johannsen

Multipole moments are related to the physical properties of compact gravitating objects; therefore, understanding their structure is useful in accessing the nature of compact objects. We look into gravitational wave observables for black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 Anirban Saha

We present results from numerical relativity simulations of equal mass, non-spinning binary black hole inspirals and mergers with initial eccentricities e <= 0.8 and coordinate separations D >= 12 M of up to 9 orbits (18 gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ian Hinder , Birjoo Vaishnav , Frank Herrmann , Deirdre Shoemaker , Pablo Laguna

We examine the ability to test the black hole no-hair theorem at the 10% level in this decade using the binary black hole in OJ287. In the test we constrain the value of the dimensionless parameter q that relates the scaled quadrupole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. J. Valtonen , S. Mikkola , H. J. Lehto , A. Gopakumar , R. Hudec , J. Polednikova

Orbital eccentricity is a key signature of dynamical binary black hole formation. The gravitational waves from a coalescing binary contain information about its orbital eccentricity, which may be measured if the binary retains sufficient…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Alan M. Knee , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Paul D. Lasky , Jess McIver , Eric Thrane

According to the no-hair theorem, astrophysical black holes are fully characterized by their masses and spins and are described by the Kerr metric. This theorem can be tested observationally by measuring (at least) three different multipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Tim Johannsen , Dimitrios Psaltis

In the first Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue of LIGO and Virgo, all events are announced having zero eccentricity. In the present paper, we investigate the performance of SEOBNRE which is a spin-aligned eccentric waveform model in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-21 Qian-Yun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Gang Wang , Shu-Cheng Yang