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Within the effective field theory approach to gravity, deviations from general relativity can be systematically described by higher-curvature operators. However, computing the resulting corrections to black hole quasinormal mode spectra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Tom van der Steen , Simon Maenaut , Stef J. B. Husken , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Maxim D. Jockwer , Vitor Cardoso , Thomas Hertog , Tjonnie G. F. Li

During the ringdown phase of a gravitational signal emitted by a black hole, the least damped quasinormal frequency dominates. If modifications to Einstein's theory induce noticeable deformations of the black-hole geometry only near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 R. A. Konoplya

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

We compute the high frequency quasi-normal modes (QNM) for scalar perturbations of spherically symmetric single horizon black-holes in $(D+2)$-space-time dimensions with generic curvature singularities and having metrics of the form $ds^2 =…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-23 Saurya Das , S. Shankaranarayanan

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

We study quasinormal modes of scalar, electromagnetic, and Dirac perturbations of four-dimensional regular black holes arising in non-polynomial quasi-topological gravity. Starting from a more general class of metric functions constructed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 R. A. Konoplya

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 show that the higher order curvature corrections to general relativity in the strong gravity regime of near horizon scales produce a rapidly oscillating and infalling Ricci scalar fireball just outside the horizon. This can generate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-17 Dan B. Sibandze , Rituparno Goswami , Sunil D. Maharaj , Peter K. S. Dunsby

Quasinormal mode (QNM) gravitational radiation from black holes is expected to be observed in a few years. A perturbative formula is derived for the shifts in both the real and the imaginary part of the QNM frequencies away from those of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. T. Leung , Y. T. Liu , W. -M. Suen , C. Y. Tam , K. Young

Using high-accuracy numerical relativity waveforms, we confirm the presence of numerous overtones of the $\ell=2$, $m=2$ quasinormal mode early in the ringdown of binary black hole mergers. We do this by demonstrating the stability of the…

Recently, Bonanno et al. (2024) presented an explicit metric describing the exterior of a collapsing dust ball within the framework of asymptotically safe gravity. Based on this metric, we investigate in detail the properties of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Oleksandr Stashko

In linear perturbation theory, the ringdown of a gravitational wave (GW) signal is described by a linear combination of quasinormal modes (QNMs). Detecting QNMs from GW signals is a promising way to test GR, central to the developing field…

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 2024-07-23 Kyriakos Destounis , Francisco Duque

Using a recently developed perturbation theory for uasinormal modes (QNM's), we evaluate the shifts in the real and imaginary parts of the QNM frequencies due to a quasi-static perturbation of the black hole spacetime. We show the perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. T. Leung , Y. T. Liu , W. -M. Suen , C. Y. Tam , K. Young

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 compute the spectrum of linearized gravitational excitations of black holes with substantial angular momentum in the presence of higher-derivative corrections to general relativity. We do so perturbatively to leading order in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Pablo A. Cano , Kwinten Fransen , Thomas Hertog , Simon Maenaut

The idea that quantum gravity effects might leak outside the horizon of a black hole has recently been intensively considered. In this study, we calculate the quasinormal modes as a function of the location and amplitude of a generic metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-16 Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau , Jeremy Martinon , Flora Moulin

Coherent quantum black holes are quantum geometries obtained by means of a mean-field-like approach to the gravitational interaction. This procedure attenuates the classical spacetime singularities of general relativity by replacing them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Tommaso Antonelli , Andrea Giusti , Roberto Casadio , Lavinia Heisenberg

Gravitational waves offer new ways to test general relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime, including tests involving the ringdown phase of binary black hole mergers, characterized by oscillating and quickly decaying quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-21 Dongjun Li , Pratik Wagle , Yanbei Chen , Nicolás Yunes

In this paper, we present a black hole solution with a cosmological constant in the Scalar-Tensor-Vector Modified Gravity (MOG) theory, where the strength of the gravitational constant is determined by $G = G_\text{N}(1+\alpha)$. We derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Wentao Liu , Xiongjun Fang , Jiliang Jing , Jieci Wang