← Back to General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology
gr-qc

How dark matter and quantum electrodynamics reshape black hole ringing

Chengfu Feng, Sheng-Yuan Li, Xufen Zhang, Ming Zhang, De-Cheng Zou, Rui-Hong Yue

May 14, 2026

Quasinormal modes — the characteristic 'ringdown' frequencies of a perturbed black hole — are calculated for a charged black hole modified by two independent effects: Euler–Heisenberg nonlinear electrodynamics and a surrounding perfect-fluid dark matter distribution. Using two independent methods (asymptotic iteration and sixth-order WKB), the study maps out how the black hole charge, the nonlinear parameter, and the dark matter density each reshape the effective potential barrier seen by scalar and electromagnetic waves. The result is that both corrections shift oscillation frequencies and damping rates in distinct, separable ways, and also alter the greybody factors that govern how much radiation escapes to a distant observer.
Published as Quasinormal modes of massless scalar and electromagnetic perturbations for Euler Heisenberg black holes surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter arXiv:2605.14528
Read the original paper →