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We develop a unified framework for testing gravity beyond General Relativity (GR) with continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). These long-lived, nearly monochromatic nanohertz signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Qinyuan Zheng , Bjorn Larsen , Ellis Eisenberg , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a unique opportunity to test General Relativity (GR) in the highly dynamical, strong-field regime. So far, the majority of the tests of GR with GW signals have been carried out following parametrized,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Félix-Louis Julié , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno

In this study, we explore the possibility of testing the no-hair theorem with gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries in the frequency band of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Based on its sensitivity, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-01 Chantal Pitte , Quentin Baghi , Marc Besançon , Antoine Petiteau

Current state-of-the-art approaches to black hole (BH) dynamics, encompassing several effective approximation schemes, offer a remarkable control of the quantitative aspects of strong gravity. They also provide key insights into some…

This paper explores the properties of the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a regular black hole(BH) characterized by a Minkowski core and sub-Planckian curvature. When focusing on a special case, this regular BH exhibits identical large-scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-29 Dan Zhang , Huajie Gong , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu , Qiyuan Pan

The ''ringdown'' stage of gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole mergers, mainly consisting of a superposition of quasinormal modes emitted by the merger remnant, is a key tool to test fundamental physics and to probe black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Francesco Crescimbeni , Gregorio Carullo , Emanuele Berti , Giada Caneva Santoro , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Paolo Pani

In this study, for the first time, we analyse the quasinormal modes of black holes occurring within the framework of degenerate gravity. We investigate the properties of the asymptotically flat spacetimes introduced recently in [JCAP…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-18 Suvikranth Gera , Poulami Dutta Roy

Studying the dynamical, nonlinear regime of modified theories of gravity remains a theoretical challenge that limits our ability to test general relativity. Here we consider two generally applicable, but approximate methods for treating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Maxence Corman , Luis Lehner , William E. East , Guillaume Dideron

The binary black hole signal GW250114, the clearest gravitational wave detected to date, offers a unique opportunity to test general relativity in the relativistic strong-gravity regime. How well does GW250114 agree with Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Leonardo Grimaldi , Elisa Maggio , Lorenzo Pompili , Alessandra Buonanno

This thesis embarks on a comprehensive investigation of modified gravity theories and their implications on the properties of compact objects. Our primary objective is to shed light on the fundamental nature of gravity by exploring…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Rajes Ghosh

We present a new method to search for gravitational waves from quasinormal modes in the ringdowns of the remnants of the mergers of the binary black hole systems. The method is based on maximum likelihood estimation. We derive a time-domain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 A. Królak , O. Dorosh

In this study, we investigate a static, spherically symmetric black hole (BH) within the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) surrounded by quintessence field. Our comprehensive analysis shows that the interplay between quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Ahmad Al-Badawi , Faizuddin Ahmed , İzzet Sakallı

The ringdown of a perturbed black hole contains fundamental information about space-time in the form of Quasi Normal Modes (QNM). Modifications to general relativity, or extended profiles of other fields surrounding the black hole, so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Jamie Bamber , Oliver J. Tattersall , Katy Clough , Pedro G. Ferreira

General Relativity (GR) was proven via the direct detection of gravitational waves from the mergers of the binary black holes and binary neutron stars by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. These detections confirmed the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 S. Shankaranarayanan , Joseph P Johnson

Recently, an exact rotating black hole solution in a parity-violating theory of gravity was obtained via a conformal transformation of the Kerr solution in general relativity, with parity-violating effects encoded in the conformal factor.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Hiroaki W. H. Tahara , Hayato Motohashi , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

The perturbation spectra of black holes beyond standard vacuum black hole solutions within generalrelativity (GR) may exhibit complex structures with long-lived modes. This usually generates echolikemodulations on the ringdown signal, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Zhen-Hao Yang , Liang-Bi Wu , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Wei-Liang Qian

Black hole solutions in general relativity are simple. The frequency spectrum of linear perturbations around these solutions (i.e., the quasinormal modes) is also simple, and therefore it is a prime target for fundamental tests of black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 Vitor Cardoso , Masashi Kimura , Andrea Maselli , Emanuele Berti , Caio F. B. Macedo , Ryan McManus

We calculate the quasinormal modes (QNM) frequencies of a test massless scalar field and an electromagnetic field around static black holes in $f(T)$ gravity. Focusing on quadratic $f(T)$ modifications, which is a good approximation for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-31 Yaqi Zhao , Xin Ren , Amara Ilyas , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Fu Cai

In this paper, we investigate the quasinormal mode (QNM) spectra for scalar perturbation over a quantum-corrected black hole (BH). The fundamental modes of this quantum-corrected BH exhibit two key properties. Firstly, there is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-09 Huajie Gong , Shulan Li , Dan Zhang , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu

Traversable wormholes are one of the most exciting predictions of General Relativity that offer short-cuts through space-time. However, their feasibility requires the violation of the null energy condition and makes their detection a bit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Madhukrishna Chakraborty , Subenoy Chakraborty