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Quasinormal ringing and shadows of black holes and wormholes in dark matter-inspired Weyl gravity

KONOPLYA, Roman; Andrii KHRABUSTOVSKYI; Jan KRIZ and Alexander ZHIDENKO

Basic information

Original name

Quasinormal ringing and shadows of black holes and wormholes in dark matter-inspired Weyl gravity

Authors

KONOPLYA, Roman; Andrii KHRABUSTOVSKYI; Jan KRIZ and Alexander ZHIDENKO

Edition

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a, 2025, 1475-7516

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 5.900 in 2024

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

UT WoS

001476629300005

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-105003382011

Keywords in English

Exact solutions;black holes and black hole thermodynamics in GR and beyond;Gravitational waves in GR and beyond: theorymodified gravity;Wormholes

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International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 21/1/2026 11:14, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

In the original language

Weyl gravity naturally generates effective dark matter and cosmological constant terms as integration constants, eliminating the need to explicitly introduce them into the theory. Additionally, the framework permits three intriguing solutions for compact objects: an asymptotically de Sitter Schwarzschild-like black hole described by the Mannheim-Kazanas solution, a non-Schwarzschild black hole, and a traversable wormhole that exists without exotic matter. In this work, we investigate the quasinormal spectra of all three solutions. We demonstrate that when the mass of the black hole corresponding to the MannheimKazanas solution approaches zero, the perturbation equations yield an exact solution expressible through hypergeometric functions. The quasinormal modes of black holes in Weyl gravity can be classified into three distinct branches: Schwarzschild-like modes modified by effective dark matter and cosmological terms, and modes associated with empty spacetime (de Sitter and dark matter branches), which are further influenced by the black hole mass. Previous studies have shown that the dark matter term induces a secondary stage of quasinormal ringing following the initial Schwarzschild phase. Here, we compute the frequencies using convergent methods and elucidate how this unique time-domain behavior translates into the frequency domain. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the non-Schwarzschild black hole can be distinguished from both the Schwarzschild-like solution and the wormhole through their distinct quasinormal spectra. We also compute shadow radii for black holes and wormholes within Weyl gravity, revealing that wormholes with large throat radii can produce significantly smaller shadows compared to black holes of equivalent mass.