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astro-ph.HE2026

Cosmological Evolution of Primordial Black Holes: UV/IR Decoupling and the KM3NeT 220 PeV Neutrino Anomaly

Debdatta Dey, Tausif Parvez, S. Shankaranarayanan

The recent observation of a 220 PeV neutrino event (KM3-230213A) by the KM3NeT observatory presents a formidable challenge to standard astrophysical source models. We investigate t…

astro-ph.CO2026

Integrated cosmological memory: A dark-siren method to probe dark energy

Indranil Chakraborty, Sayantan Ghosh, Susmita Jana +2

Gravitational-wave (GW) cosmology is currently bottlenecked by the scarcity of electromagnetic counterparts for bright sirens and the systematic uncertainties of galaxy catalogs fo…

gr-qc2025

A non-local origin for massive gravity and late-time acceleration

Susobhan Mandal, S. Shankaranarayanan

The accelerated expansion of the universe poses a significant challenge to General Relativity. Non-local modifications to gravity have emerged as a compelling class of theories to…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Exact, non-singular black holes from a phantom DBI Field as primordial dark matter

Tausif Parvez, S. Shankaranarayanan

We present the first exact, non-singular black hole solution in General Relativity sourced by a Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) scalar field. Crucially, the solution is exclusively support…

astro-ph.CO2025

Disformal interactions in the Dark Sector: From driving Early Dark Energy to confronting cosmological tensions

Pulkit Bansal, Joseph P. Johnson, S. Shankaranarayanan

The CDM model faces significant challenges, including an incomplete understanding of the dark sector and persistent tensions in the Hubble constant and the clustering amplitude.…

astro-ph.HE2025

Quantum signatures in black hole accretion: Pair production in dynamical magnetic fields

Susobhan Mandal, Tausif Parvez, S. Shankaranarayanan

Accretion disks around black holes host extreme conditions where general relativity and magnetohydrodynamics dominate. These disks exhibit two distinct dynamical regimes -- Standar…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Signatures of asymmetry: Gravitational wave memory and the parity violation

Indranil Chakraborty, Susmita Jana, S. Shankaranarayanan

Einstein's equivalence principle suggests a deep connection between matter and spacetime, prompting the question: if matter violates parity, must gravity? This letter explores the…

gr-qc2025

Modified theories of gravity at different curvature scales

Susobhan Mandal, S. Shankaranarayanan

General Relativity (GR) remains the cornerstone of gravitational physics, providing remarkable success in describing a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. Howev…

hep-th2025

Can Q-balls describe cosmological and galactic dark matter?

Susobhan Mandal, S. Shankaranarayanan

The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) hypothesis accurately predicts large-scale structure formation and fits the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature fluctuations (CMB). However, observat…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Analog charged black hole formation via percolation: Exploring cosmic censorship and Hoop conjecture

Nitesh Jaiswal, S. Shankaranarayanan

We investigate an analog model of charged black hole (BH) formation using the framework of classical percolation. By analyzing the scaling behavior of key quantities, including sur…

gr-qc2024

Scalar quasinormal modes in emergent modified gravity

Martin Bojowald, Erick I. Duque, S. Shankaranarayanan

Emergent modified gravity is a post-Einsteinian gravitational theory where spacetime geometry is not fundamental but rather emerges from the gravitational degrees of freedom in a n…

astro-ph.CO2024

Interacting dark sector from Horndeski theories and beyond: Mapping fields and fluids

Pulkit Bansal, Joseph P Johnson, S. Shankaranarayanan

In Cosmology, when dissipative effects are minimal, the energy content of the Universe can be effectively described as a sum of perfect fluids. Perfect fluid descriptions ensure th…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

Generation of effective massive Spin-2 fields through spontaneous symmetry breaking of scalar field

Susobhan Mandal, S. Shankaranarayanan

General relativity and quantum field theory are the cornerstones of our understanding of physical processes, from subatomic to cosmic scales. While both theories work remarkably we…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Prospects for cosmological constraints using gravitational wave memory

Indranil Chakraborty, Susmita Jana, S. Shankaranarayanan

The ΛCDM model has long served as a robust and predictive framework for cosmology, successfully explaining a wide range of observations, including the accelerated expansion of the…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Dynamical 4-D Gauss-Bonnet action from matter-graviton interaction at one-loop

Susobhan Mandal, S. Shankaranarayanan

The occurrence of singularities at the centers of black holes suggests that general relativity (GR), although a highly successful model of gravity and cosmology, is inapplicable. T…

gr-qc2024★ 3 cited

Transient electromagnetic sources can detect solitary black holes in Milky Way galaxy

Susmita Jana, Rituparno Goswami, S. Shankaranarayanan +1

The Milky Way galaxy is estimated to host up to a billion stellar-mass solitary black holes (BHs). The number and distribution of BH masses can provide crucial information about th…

gr-qc2023

From Horndeski action to the Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger model and beyond

Susobhan Mandal, Tausif Parvez, S. Shankaranarayanan

The knowledge of what entered black hole (BH) is completely lost as it evaporates. This contradicts the unitarity principle of quantum mechanics and is referred to as the informati…

gr-qc2023

A test of Einstein's equivalence principle in future VLBI observations

Joseph P Johnson, Susmita Jana, S. Shankaranarayanan

We show that very-long-baseline-interferometry (VLBI) observations of supermassive black holes will allow us to test the fundamental principles of General Relativity (GR). GR is ba…