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Using the WKB method, we show that the peak location ($r_{\rm peak}$) of the potential, which determines the quasinormal mode frequency of the Kerr black hole, obeys an accurate empirical relation as a function of the specific angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-29 Takashi Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakano

We perform the first nonlinear and self-consistent study of the merger and ringdown of a black hole mimicking object with stable light rings. To that end, we numerically solve the full Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations governing the head-on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Nils Siemonsen

The differential equations governing the late-time ring-down of the perturbations of the Kerr metric, the Teukolsky Angular Equation and the Teukolsky Radial Equation, can be solved analytically in terms of confluent Heun functions. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-24 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

The $d$-dimensional scalar field action may be reduced, in the background geometry of a black hole, to a 2-dimensional effective action. In the near horizon region, it appears a gravitational anomaly: the energy-momentum tensor of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 J. C. Fabris , G. T. Marques

We prove the existence of a unique family of non-oscillatory (purely-imaginary) polar quasinormal resonances of rapidly-rotating Kerr black holes. These purely imaginary resonances can be expressed in the compact form:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Shahar Hod

It has long been known that, in higher-dimensional general relativity, there are black hole solutions with an arbitrarily large angular momentum for a fixed mass. We examine the geometry of the event horizon of such ultra-spinning black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Roberto Emparan , Robert C. Myers

Motivated by recent suggestions that highly damped black hole quasinormal modes (QNM's) may provide a link between classical general relativity and quantum gravity, we present an extensive computation of highly damped QNM's of Kerr black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Hisashi Onozawa

The one-loop contributions to the entropy for a massive scalar field in a Kerr black hole are investigated using an approximation of the metric, which, after a conformal transformation, permits to work in a Rindler-like spacetime. Of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Guido Cognola

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

We have studied quasinormal modes of scalar perturbations of a black hole in massive gravity. The parameters of the theory, such as the mass of the black hole, the scalar charge of the black hole and the spherical harmonic index is varied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Sharmanthie Fernando , Tyler Clark

Attempts to find black hole microstates using the Hamiltonian phase space approach have been made on the Schwarzschild spacetime. Since the Schwarzschild spacetime is also in the larger family of the Kerr spacetimes, and both are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-13 M. R. Setare , M. Koohgard

We show that extremal Kerr black holes are sensitive probes of new physics. Stringy or quantum corrections to general relativity are expected to generate higher-curvature terms in the gravitational action. We show that in the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-11 Gary T. Horowitz , Maciej Kolanowski , Grant N. Remmen , Jorge E. Santos

The Kerr metric is one of the most important solutions to Einstein's field equations, describing the gravitational field outside a rotating black hole. We thoroughly analyze the curvature scalar invariants to study the Kerr spacetime by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-10 Majd Abdelqader , Kayll Lake

We first show that the master equations for massless perturbations of accelerating rotating black holes can be transformed into the Heun's equation. The quasinormal modes of the black holes can be easily calculated in the framework of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-24 Tan Chen , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Hu

Scalar, vector and tensor perturbations on the Kerr spacetime are governed by equations that can be solved by separation of variables, but the same is not true in generic stationary and axisymmetric geometries. This complicates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Rajes Ghosh , Nicola Franchini , Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse

It has been recently found that for the near extremal Kerr black holes appearing of Zero Damped Modes (accompanied by qusinormal mode branching) signifies about inapplicability of the regime of small perturbations and the onset of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 K. D. Kokkotas , R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We extract elegant and concise analytic formulae for the mass and rotation parameters of the Kerr black hole as well as its distance from the Earth only in terms of directly measurable quantities of the accretion disk revolving in the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-09 Mehrab Momennia

It has been recently pointed out that nonlinear effects are necessary to model the ringdown stage of the gravitational waveform produced by the merger of two black holes giving rise to a remnant Kerr black hole. We show that this nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Alex Kehagias , Davide Perrone , Antonio Riotto , Francesco Riva

We present a first-principles derivation of the main results of the Kerr/CFT correspondence and its extensions using only tools from gravity and quantum field theory. Firstly, we review properties of extremal black holes with in particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-09 Geoffrey Compère

We show that perturbatively-small higher-derivative corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action can lead to order-one modifications of the quasinormal mode spectrum of near-extremal Kerr black holes. The spectrum of such black holes contains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Pablo A. Cano , Marina David , Guido van der Velde