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The stability of geodesic orbits around a regular hairy black hole, in the gravitational decoupling setup, is investigated by employing Lyapunov exponents, which quantify the divergence rate of nearby trajectories in dynamical systems. Both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-18 R. C. de Paiva , K. S. Alves , R. T. Cavalcanti , R. da Rocha

The ringdown of a perturbed black hole consists of a superposition of quasi-normal modes (QNMs), with complex frequencies determined by the black hole's mass and spin, while phases and amplitudes depend on binary parameters. Traditional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Koustav Chandra , Juan Calderón Bustillo

Much of our physical intuition about black hole quasinormal modes in general relativity comes from the eikonal/geometric optics approximation. According to the well-established eikonal model, the fundamental quasinormal mode represents…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Kostas Glampedakis , Hector O. Silva

From a five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory, Bah et al. constructed a singularity free topology star/black hole [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151101 (2021)]. After the Klein-Kluza reduction, i.e., integrating the extra space dimension, it can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Wen-Di Guo , Qin Tan

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

Gravitational waves provide direct information about the nature of spacetime and the existence of black holes. The remnant of a binary black hole merger emits gravitational waves in the form of quasinormal modes, whose spectrum is known as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-18 Iara Ota

We provide an in-depth investigation of quasinormal-mode oscillations of Kerr black holes with nearly extremal angular momenta. We first discuss in greater detail the two distinct types of quasinormal mode frequencies presented in a recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-28 Huan Yang , Aaron Zimmerman , Anıl Zenginoğlu , Fan Zhang , Emanuele Berti , Yanbei Chen

We discuss a new ringdown frequency mode for vacuum perturbations of the Kerr black hole. We evolve initial data for the vacuum radial Teukolsky equation using a near horizon approximation, and find a frequency mode analogous to that found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Aaron Zimmerman , Yanbei Chen

In the present paper we study the scalar sector of the quasinormal modes of charged general relativistic, static and spherically symmetric black holes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics and embedded in a class of scalar-tensor theories.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-15 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Ivan Zh. Stefanov

The recent convergence of gravitational-wave (GW) observations and black hole imaging provides complementary probes of strong-gravity dynamics. While the black hole shadow is typically modeled as a static feature, a dynamically perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Reggie C. Pantig

We study the propagation of massive scalar fields in the background of asymptotically flat regular black holes supported by a phantom scalar field with a scalar charge $A$. This parameter regularizes the geometry by removing the central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Ramón Bécar , P. A. González , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Yerko Vásquez

Alternative theories of gravity may be put to the test by making use of gravitational wave observations. Scalar-tensor theories provide a relatively simple framework that allows for compact object solutions with characteristics different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Georgios Antoniou

We provide a fully analytical approach to calculate the nonlinearities of the gravitational waves in the ringdown of a Kerr black hole in the eikonal limit. The corresponding quasi-normal modes are associated to the orbits of a closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 D. Perrone , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

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

Black holes have their proper oscillations, which are called the quasi-normal modes. The proper oscillations of astrophysical black holes can be observed in the nearest future with the help of gravitational wave detectors. Quasi-normal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-26 Alexander Zhidenko

We study the physics of photon rings in a wide range of axisymmetric black holes admitting a separable Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the geodesics. Utilizing the Killing-Yano tensor, we derive the Penrose limit of the black holes, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 D. Giataganas , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

The ringdown phase of gravitational waves emitted by a perturbed black hole is described by a superposition of exponentially decaying sinusoidal modes, called quasinormal modes (QNMs), whose frequencies depend only on the property of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Che-Yu Chen , Petr Kotlařík

The ringdown of a perturbed black hole (BH) can be described as a superposition of quasinormal modes (QNMs), whose frequencies are determined by the spacetime geometry while their amplitudes depend also on the perturbing source. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Alejandro Svyatkovskyy Kholyavka , Jose Antonio León Vega , Samuel Gómez Gómez , Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Sayak Datta

In this work, we investigate the quasinormal frequencies of a class of regular black hole solutions which generalize Bardeen and Hayward spacetimes. In particular, we analyze scalar, vector and gravitational perturbations of the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Ángel Rincón , Victor Santos

We compute the quasinormal frequencies for scalar and electromagnetic perturbations of an improved Schwarzschild geometry in the framework of asymptotically safe gravity, which is one of the approaches to quantum gravity. Adopting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Angel Rincon , Grigoris Panotopoulos