https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-15290-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Quasinormal modes and gray-body factors for gravitational perturbations in asymptotically safe gravity
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62/26, 500 03, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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Received:
19
December
2025
Accepted:
30
December
2025
Published online:
19
January
2026
Abstract
A quantum-corrected black hole model arising from gravitational collapse in the framework of asymptotically safe gravity was recently proposed in Bonanno et al. (Phys Rev Lett 132:031401, 2024). Quantum corrected spacetime strongly deviates from the Schwarzschild solution near the event horizon, quickly merging with the Schwarzschild metric in the far region. While quasinormal modes and gray-body factors have been analyzed for test fields in this background, no such analysis has yet been performed for gravitational perturbations. In this work, we study axial gravitational perturbations of these black holes by modeling the effective quantum corrections through an anisotropic fluid energy-momentum tensor. We compute both quasinormal modes and gray-body factors, and show that quantum corrections enhance the quality factor of the oscillations, thereby making the quantum-corrected black hole a more efficient gravitational wave emitter. At asymptotically late times, the power-law decay is indistinguishable from Price’s tails, which behave as 
, where 
is the multipole number. We also demonstrate that quantum corrections lead to a suppression of the gray-body factors and examine the validity of the correspondence between gray-body factors and quasinormal modes.
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