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Black-hole bomb and superradiant instabilities
Abstract
A wave impinging on a Kerr black hole can be amplified as it scatters off the hole if certain conditions are satisfied, giving rise to superradiant scattering. By placing a mirror around the black hole one can make the system unstable. This is the black-hole bomb of Press and Teukolsky. We investigate in detail this process and compute the growing time scales and oscillation frequencies as a function of the mirror's location. It is found that in order for the system black hole plus mirror to become unstable there is a minimum distance at which the mirror must be located. We also give an explicit example showing that such a bomb can be built. In addition, our arguments enable us to justify why large Kerr-AdS black holes are stable and small Kerr-AdS black holes should be unstable.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cardoso, V., Dias, Ó. J. C., Lemos, J. P. S., & Yoshida, S.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2004-08-26
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- 1550-7998
- 1550-2368
- OpenAlex
- W2109073651
- Cited by
- 371
- References
- 26
- FWCI
- 4.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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