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20242026
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6 papers

gr-qc2026

Extreme mass ratio head-on collisions of black holes in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory

Antonia M. Frassino, David C. Lopes, Jorge V. Rocha

The evolution of the event horizon when two black holes merge can be determined by resorting to ray-tracing techniques on a single black hole spacetime, under the assumption that t…

gr-qc2025

Self-similar collapse with elasticity

Jorge V. Rocha, Diogo L. F. G. Silva

Critical collapse is a well-studied subject for a variety of self-gravitating matter. One of the most intensively examined models is that of perfect fluids, which have been used ex…

gr-qc2025

Weak Cosmic Censorship with spinning particles in Kerr-(A)dS spacetimes

Antonia M. Frassino, Jorge V. Rocha, Andrea P. Sanna

We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture by analyzing the dynamics of spinning timelike particles dropped along the rotational axis of an extremal Kerr (anti)de Sitter…

hep-th2024

Tidal Love numbers of static black holes in anti-de Sitter

Edgardo Franzin, Antonia M. Frassino, Jorge V. Rocha

Tidal Love numbers of anti-de Sitter black holes are understood as linear response coefficients governing how the holographically dual plasma polarizes when the geometry of the spa…

gr-qc2024

The impact of higher derivative corrections to General Relativity on black hole mergers

João M. Dias, Antonia M. Frassino, David C. Lopes +2

The merging of two black holes is a notoriously difficult process to describe exactly. Nevertheless, the hindrances posed by gravity's nonlinearity can be circumvented by focusing…

hep-th2024

Weak cosmic censorship and the rotating quantum BTZ black hole

Antonia M. Frassino, Jorge V. Rocha, Andrea P. Sanna

Tests of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture examine the possibility of the breakdown of predictivity of the gravitational theory considered, by checking if curvature singulariti…