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We carry out the first computation of gravitational quasinormal modes of black holes with arbitrary rotation in a theory with higher-derivative corrections. Our analysis focuses on a recently identified quartic-curvature theory that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Pablo A. Cano , Marina David , Guido van der Velde

Quasinormal modes (QNMs) are usually characterized by their time dependence; oscillations at specific frequencies predicted by black hole (BH) perturbation theory. QNMs are routinely identified in the ringdown of numerical relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 Richard Dyer , Christopher J. Moore

We present the first precise calculations of the gravitational quasinormal-mode (QNM) frequencies for spinning black holes with dimensionless angular momenta $J/M^2 := a \lesssim 0.75$ in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity. Using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam , Nicolas Yunes

We investigate the quasinormal modes of a massless scalar field on an effective rotating loop quantum black hole background, constructed from a covariant spherical model via an improved Newman-Janis algorithm. Using the continued fraction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhongzhinan Dong , Shulan Li , Dan Zhang , Jian-Pin Wu

We study the linear perturbations of a spherically symmetric black hole corrected by dimension-6 terms in the effective field theory (EFT) of gravity. The solution is asymptotically flat and characterized by two parameters -- a mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-08 Li-Ming Cao , Ming-Fei Ji , Liang-Bi Wu , Yu-Sen Zhou

The fundamental quasinormal modes of black holes in higher-derivative gravity given by the Einstein-Weyl action are known to be moderately corrected by the Weyl term. Here we will show that the first several overtones are highly sensitive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-14 R. A. Konoplya

Black hole (BH) oscillations known as quasi-normal modes (QNMs) are one of the most important gravitational wave (GW) sources. We propose that higher perturbative order of QNMs, generated by nonlinear gravitational interaction near the BHs,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Kunihito Ioka , Hiroyuki Nakano

In this paper, we investigate quasinormal modes (QNMs) and greybody factors within the framework of Symmergent gravity, an emergent gravity model with an $R + R^2$ curvature sector. Building on our previous work on static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Beyhan Puliçe , Ali Övgün

Black hole (BH) perturbation is followed by a ringdown phase which is dominated by quasinormal modes (QNM). These modes may provide key signature of the gravitational waves. The presence of a deformed spacetime structure may distort this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić , Nikola Konjik , Andjelo Samsarov

The rapid advancement of gravitational wave astronomy in recent years has paved the way for the burgeoning development of black hole spectroscopy, which enhances the possibility of testing black holes by their quasinormal modes (QNMs). In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Che-Yu Chen , Yu-Hsien Kung , Pisin Chen

Analyzing the stability of quasinormal modes (QNM) is essential for understanding black hole dynamics, particularly in the context of gravitational wave emissions and black hole spectroscopy. In this study, we employ the hyperboloidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Lucas Tobias de Paula , Pedro Henrique Croti Siqueira , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Maurício Richartz

The ringdown signal following a black hole (BH) merger can be modeled as a superposition of BH quasinormal modes (QNMs), offering a clean setup for testing gravitational theories. In particular, detecting multiple QNMs enables consistency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Soichiro Morisaki , Hayato Motohashi , Motoki Suzuki , Daiki Watarai

Two quantum-corrected black hole models have recently been proposed within the Hamiltonian constraints approach to quantum gravity, maintaining general covariance \cite{Zhang:2024khj}. We have studied the quasinormal spectra of these black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 R. A. Konoplya , O. S. Stashko

Extracting quasinormal modes from compact binary mergers to perform black hole spectroscopy is one of the fundamental pillars in current and future strong-gravity tests. Among the most remarkable findings of recent works is that including a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 Peter James Nee , Sebastian H. Völkel , Harald P. Pfeiffer

We investigate the quasi-normal mode (QNM) spectra for scalar and electromagnetic fields over a covairant loop quantum gravity black hole (LQG-BH). For the fundamental modes, the LQG effect reduces the oscillations in the scalar field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 Guoyang Fu , Dan Zhang , Peng Liu , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

We often encounter a situation that black hole solutions can be regarded as continuous deformations of simpler ones, or modify general relativity by continuous parameters. We develop a general framework to compute high-order perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Masashi Kimura

Quasinormal modes for bosonic (scalar, electromagnetic, and axial gravitational) and fermionic field perturbations, radiated from black holes that carry quantum gravitational corrections at third order in the curvature to the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 R. Casadio , C. Noberto Souza , R. da Rocha

This paper aims to explore the quasinormal modes (QNMs) and effective potential profiles of massless and rotating BTZ black holes within the frameworks of $f(\mathcal{R})$ and Ricci-Inverse ($\mathcal{RI}$) modified gravity theories, which,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , İzzet Sakallı , Abdelmalek Bouzenadad

The relaxation of a distorted black hole to its final state provides important tests of general relativity within the reach of current and upcoming gravitational wave facilities. In black hole perturbation theory, this phase consists of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Gaurav Khanna

The quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a black hole spacetime are the free, decaying oscillations of the spacetime, and are well understood in the case of Kerr black holes. We discuss a method for computing the QNMs of spacetimes which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron Zimmerman , Huan Yang , Zachary Mark , Yanbei Chen , Luis Lehner