Vortex Effects in Merging Black Holes and Saturons

Author:

Gia Dvali, Oleg Kaikov, Florian Kuhnel, Juan Sebastián Valbuena-Bermúdez, Michael Zantedeschi

Keyword:

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

journal:

date:

2023-10-01 16:00:00

Abstract

Vorticity has recently been suggested to be a property of highly-spinning black holes. The connection between vorticity and limiting spin represents a universal feature shared by objects of maximal microstate entropy, so-called saturons. Using $Q$-ball-like saturons as a laboratory for black holes, we study the collision of two such objects and find that vorticity can have a large impact on the emitted radiation as well as on the charge and angular momentum of the final configuration. As black holes belong to the class of saturons, we expect that the formation of vortices can cause similar effects in black hole mergers, leading to macroscopic deviations in gravitational radiation. This could leave unique signatures detectable with upcoming gravitational-wave searches, which can thereby serve as a portal to macroscopic quantum effects in black holes.

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