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Black hole quasinormal modes are known to exhibit spectral instability under ultraviolet perturbations of the effective potential. In the present work, we investigate the sensitivity of the fundamental mode to different types of localized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Ramin G. Daghigh , Michael D. Green , Guan-Ru Li , Jodin C. Morey , Wei-Liang Qian , Stefan J. Randow

The aim of this work is to improve understanding of the resonant spectra of black holes under perturbations arising from e.g. compact objects or accretion disks in their vicinity. It is known that adding a weak perturbation to the radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 T. Torres , S. R. Dolan

The P\"ochl-Teller effective potential mimics an asymptotically de Sitter black hole bounded by an event horizon and a cosmological one. Owing to the benefit of being analytically soluble, the asymptotic quasinormal modes in the modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-18 Guan-Ru Li , Wei-Liang Qian , Ramin G. Daghigh

It was recently pointed out that the fundamental mode of the Regge-Wheeler effective potential is unstable against an insignificant Gaussian metric perturbation, which, in turn, might substantially challenge the black hole spectroscopy.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Shui-Fa Shen , Guan-Ru Li , Ramin G. Daghigh , Jodin C. Morey , Michael D. Green , Qiyuan Pan , Cheng-Gang Shao , Wei-Liang Qian

In this work, we investigate the relation between bound states and quasinormal modes within black hole perturbation theory in the context of spectral instability. Our analysis indicates that the reliability of such spectral mapping…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Guan-Ru Li , Wei-Liang Qian , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Ramin G. Daghigh , Jodin C. Morey , Michael D. Green , Peng Xu , Rui-Hong Yue

We investigate the pseudospectrum of a Schwarzschild-like spacetime within the framework of black hole perturbation theory to analyze a counterintuitive assertion regarding the instability of quasinormal modes. Recent findings suggest that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Pedro Henrique Croti Siqueira , Lucas Tobias de Paula , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Maurício Richartz

We elaborate on a criterion for the emergence of instability in the fundamental mode recently observed by Cheung {\it et al.}, as a universal phenomenon in the context of black hole perturbations. Such instability is characterized by an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-20 Wei-Liang Qian , Guan-Ru Li , Ramin G. Daghigh , Stefan Randow , Rui-Hong Yue

It has been suggested that the spectrum of quasinormal modes of rotating black holes is unstable against additional potential terms in the perturbation equation, as the operator associated with the equation is non-self-adjoint. We point out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 Huan Yang , Jun Zhang

Recent work has shown that the quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes is unstable under small perturbations (of order $\epsilon$) of the radial potential, while the early time-domain ringdown waveform is only marginally affected. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Yiqiu Yang , Zhan-Feng Mai , Run-Qiu Yang , Lijing Shao , Emanuele Berti

We present a short review of the analytical aspects of recent progress in the study of black hole spectral instability and its potential observational consequences. This topic, inspired by earlier foundational works, has attracted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Shui-Fa Shen , Guan-Ru Li , Ramin G. Daghigh , Jodin C. Morey , Michael D. Green , Wei-Liang Qian , Rui-Hong Yue

Recent work applying the notion of pseudospectrum to gravitational physics showed that the quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes is unstable, with the possible exception of the longest-lived (fundamental) mode. The fundamental mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-29 Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Kyriakos Destounis , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso

Recent non-modal analyses have uncovered spectral instabilities in the quasinormal-mode spectrum of black holes; a phenomenon that intriguingly extends to spherically-symmetric exotic compact objects. These results point to a sensitivity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Kyriakos Destounis , Mateus Malato Corrêa , Caio F. B. Macedo , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

In this work we explore some aspects of the spectral instability of back hole quasi-normal modes, using a specific model as an example. The model is that of a small bump perturbation to the effective potential of linear axial gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Valentin Boyanov

Black hole spectroscopy is a powerful tool to probe the Kerr nature of astrophysical compact objects and their environment. The observation of multiple ringdown modes in gravitational waveforms could soon lead to high-precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Kyriakos Destounis , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , José Luis Jaramillo

Recent studies have shown that quasinormal modes suffer from spectral instabilities, a frailty of black holes that leads to disproportional migration of their spectra in the complex plane when black-hole effective potentials are modified by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-16 Aubin Courty , Kyriakos Destounis , Paolo Pani

The quasi-normal mode (QNM) spectrum of black holes is unstable under small perturbation of the potential and has observational consequences in time signals. Such signals might be experimentally difficult to observe and probing this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Theo Torres

It has been shown, via specific examples and a pseudospectrum analysis, that the black hole quasinormal spectra are unstable. The implication of such a result for gravitational-wave physics and of our understanding of black holes is, still,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Vitor Cardoso , Shilpa Kastha , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

Recent investigations of the pseudospectrum in black hole spacetimes have shown that quasinormal mode frequencies suffer from spectral instabilities. This phenomenon may severely affect gravitational-wave spectroscopy and limit precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-13 Valentin Boyanov , Kyriakos Destounis , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Vitor Cardoso , José Luis Jaramillo

In this study, we investigate the pseudospectrum and spectrum (in)stability of quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole. Methodologically, we use the hyperboloidal framework to cast the quasinormal mode (QNM) problem into an eigenvalue…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Li-Ming Cao , Jia-Ning Chen , Liang-Bi Wu , Libo Xie , Yu-Sen Zhou

This paper numerically studies if the stability of a stable black hole is robust against the small perturbation on geometry near its event horizon. As a toy model, it encodes the such perturbation into deformations of Regge-Wheeler…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Zhan-Feng Mai , Run-Qiu Yang
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