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Postmerger gravitational wave echoes provide a unique opportunity to probe the near-horizon structure of astrophysical black holes, which may be modified due to nonperturbative quantum gravity phenomena. However, since the waveform is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Di Wu , Pengyuan Gao , Jing Ren , Niayesh Afshordi

The remnant black hole from a binary coalescence emits ringdown gravitational waves characterized by quasinormal modes, which depend solely on the remnant's mass and spin. In contrast, the ringdown amplitudes and phases are determined by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Costantino Pacilio , Swetha Bhagwat , Francesco Nobili , Davide Gerosa

We study electrically charged, slowly rotating black hole solutions in Einstein-Bumblebee gravity coupled to the traceless (conformal) ModMax nonlinear electrodynamics. By adopting a quadratic bumblebee potential that fixes the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Yassine Sekhmani , Wentao Liu , Weike Deng , Kuantay Boshkayev

Quasinormal modes of perturbed black holes have recently gained much interest because of their tight relations with the gravitational wave signals emitted during the post-merger phase of a binary black hole coalescence. One of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Che-Yu Chen , Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Pisin Chen

Modelling the end point of binary black hole mergers is a cornerstone of modern gravitational-wave astronomy. Extracting multiple quasinormal mode frequencies from the ringdown signal allows the remnant black hole to be studied in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Eliot Finch , Christopher J. Moore

We study gravitational quasinormal modes of the Hayward spacetime, a regular black-hole geometry that also admits an interpretation as an effective quantum-corrected solution within asymptotically safe gravity. Using both the higher-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 S. V. Bolokhov , Milena Skvortsova

The ringdown of perturbed black holes has been studied since the 1970s, but until recently, studies have focused on linear perturbations. There is now burgeoning interest in nonlinear perturbative effects during ringdown. Here, using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Patrick Bourg , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Andrew Spiers , Benjamin Leather , Bonga Béatrice , Adam Pound

We study the scattering of gravitational waves by a Schwarzschild black hole and its perturbed siblings to investigate influences of proposed spectral instability of quasinormal modes on the ringdown signal. Our results indicate that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-09 Koutarou Kyutoku , Hayato Motohashi , Takahiro Tanaka

Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes were recently computed in a generic effective-field-theory extension of general relativity with higher-derivative corrections. We exploit this breakthrough to perform the most complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Simon Maenaut , Gregorio Carullo , Pablo A. Cano , Anna Liu , Vitor Cardoso , Thomas Hertog , Tjonnie G. F. Li

We formulate a Bayesian framework to analyze ringdown gravitational waves from colliding binary black holes and test the no-hair theorem. The idea hinges on mode cleaning -- revealing subdominant oscillation modes by removing dominant ones…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-06 Sizheng Ma , Ling Sun , Yanbei Chen

We develop an analytic eikonal description of perturbations for four-dimensional regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity. Using first-order Schutz--Will WKB together with a small-coupling expansion and a large-$\ell$ expansion, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Alexey Dubinsky

The ringdown phase of a binary black-hole merger encodes key information about the remnant properties and provides a direct probe of the strong-field regime of General Relativity. While quasi-normal mode frequencies and damping times are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Francesco Nobili , Swetha Bhagwat , Costantino Pacilio , Davide Gerosa

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 review the main results obtained in the literature on quasi-normal modes of compact stars and black holes, in the light of recent exciting developments of gravitational wave detectors. Quasi-normal modes are a fundamental feature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri

Recent studies have shown that far-field perturbations to the curvature potential of a black hole spacetime may destabilize its quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum while only mildly affecting time-domain ringdown signals. In this work, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-26 Andrew Laeuger , Colin Weller , Dongjun Li , Yanbei Chen

The detection and subsequent inference of binary black hole signals rely heavily on the accuracy of the waveform model employed. In the highly non-linear, dynamic, and strong-field regime near merger, these waveforms can only be accurately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Alireza Rashti , Rossella Gamba , Koustav Chandra , David Radice , Boris Daszuta , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

The remnant of a black hole binary merger settles into a stationary configuration by "ringing down" through the emission of gravitational waves that consist of a superposition of damped exponentials with discrete complex frequencies - the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Matteo Della Rocca , Laura Pezzella , Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli

A major aim of gravitational wave astronomy is to test observationally the Kerr nature of black holes. The strongest such test, with minimal additional assumptions, is provided by observations of multiple ringdown modes, also known as black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Collin D. Capano , Jahed Abedi , Shilpa Kastha , Alexander H. Nitz , Julian Westerweck , Yi-Fan Wang , Miriam Cabero , Alex B. Nielsen , Badri Krishnan

Studies of quasinormal modes (QNMs) of black holes have a long and well established history. Predominantly, much research in this area has customarily focused on the equations given by Regge, Wheeler and Zerilli. In this work we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-05 Bishop Mongwane , Sipho Nkele , Didam G. A. Duniya , Nigel T. Bishop

Quasinormal modes (QNMs) uniquely describe the dominant piece of the gravitational-wave ringdown of postmerger black holes. While the linear QNM regime has been extensively studied, recent work has highlighted the importance of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-04 Patrick Bourg , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Andrew Spiers , Benjamin Leather , Béatrice Bonga , Adam Pound