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A Black-Hole Primer: Particles, Waves, Critical Phenomena and Superradiant Instabilities

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These notes were prepared for a lecture on black holes delivered at the DPG Physics School "General Relativity @ 99" (Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, September 2014). The common thread of the lecture is the relation between geodesic stability and black-hole perturbations in the geometric optics limit. Chapter 1 establishes notation and discusses a common misconception on Michell's "Newtonian black holes". Chapters 2 and 3 deal with particle dynamics and wave dynamics in black-hole spacetimes, respectively. All calculations should be simple enough that they can be done with pen and paper. Chapter 4 builds on this introduction to discuss two exciting topics in current research: critical phenomena in black-hole mergers and the black-hole bomb instability.

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Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment

gr-qc · 2025-05-29 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

A review summarizing the state of the art in black hole quasinormal modes, ringdown waveform modeling, current LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations, and prospects for LISA and next-generation detectors.

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  • Shadow of the Scalar Hairy Black Hole with Inverted Higgs Potential gr-qc · 2025-01-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 99 · internal anchor

    Hairy black hole shadows and disks grow with horizon scalar value but can mimic Schwarzschild by adjusting horizon radius, with the potential parameter Lambda constrained by supermassive black hole observations.

  • Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment gr-qc · 2025-05-29 · unverdicted · none · ref 33

    A review summarizing the state of the art in black hole quasinormal modes, ringdown waveform modeling, current LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations, and prospects for LISA and next-generation detectors.