Grey galaxies in AdS5
- 1Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- 2Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Abstract
It has recently been conjectured [S. Kim et al., J. High Energy Phys. 11, 024 (2023)] that the end point of the rotational superradiant instability of black holes in AdS_4 A d S 4 is a Grey Galaxy: an \omega=1 ω = 1 black hole sitting at the centre of AdS_4 A d S 4 , surrounded by a large disk of rapidly rotating gravitons and other bulk fields. In this paper we study Grey Galaxies in AdS_5 A d S 5 . In this case, the rotational group is of rank 2, and so has two distinct angular velocities \omega_1 ω 1 and \omega_2 ω 2 . We demonstrate that AdS_5 A d S 5 hosts two qualitatively distinct Grey Galaxy phases: the first with either \omega_1≈ 1 ω 1 ≈ 1 or \omega_2≈ 1 ω 2 ≈ 1 , and the second with both angular velocities ≈ 1 ≈ 1 . We use these results to present a conjecture for a part of the phase diagram of {\cal N}=4 Yang-Mills (as a function of energy and the two angular momenta) that displays several phase transitions between regular black holes and various Grey Galaxy phases. We present an explicit gravitational construction of the phases in which \omega_1 ω 1 and \omega_2 ω 2 are both parametrically close to unity, and demonstrate that the corresponding boundary stress tensor is the sum of two pieces. The first is the stress tensor of the central black hole. The second - the contribution of the bulk gas - has the spatial distribution of the stress tensor of an equilibrated boundary conformal fluid, rotating at the given angular speeds \omega_i ω i . We also briefly comment on the structure of Grey Galaxies in
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BibTeX
@article{bajaj2026grey,
title = {{Grey galaxies in $AdS_5$}},
author = {Kabir Bajaj and Vipul Kumar and Shiraz N. Minwalla and Jyotirmoy Mukherjee and Asikur Rahaman},
journal = {SciPost Physics},
year = {2026},
month = jun,
doi = {10.21468/scipostphys.20.6.178},
url = {https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.20.6.178},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Grey galaxies in AdS_5
AU - Kabir Bajaj
AU - Vipul Kumar
AU - Shiraz N. Minwalla
AU - Jyotirmoy Mukherjee
AU - Asikur Rahaman
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/06/24
JO - SciPost Physics
DO - 10.21468/scipostphys.20.6.178
UR - https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.20.6.178
AB - It has recently been conjectured [S. Kim et al., J. High Energy Phys. 11, 024 (2023)] that the end point of the rotational superradiant instability of black holes in AdS_4 A d S 4 is a Grey Galaxy: an \omega=1 ω = 1 black hole sitting at the centre of AdS_4 A d S 4 , surrounded by a large disk of rapidly rotating gravitons and other bulk fields. In this paper we study Grey Galaxies in AdS_5 A d S 5 . In this case, the rotational group is of rank 2, and so has two distinct angular velocities \omega_1 ω 1 and \omega_2 ω 2 . We demonstrate that AdS_5 A d S 5 hosts two qualitatively distinct Grey Galaxy phases: the first with either \omega_1≈ 1 ω 1 ≈ 1 or \omega_2≈ 1 ω 2 ≈ 1 , and the second with both angular velocities ≈ 1 ≈ 1 . We use these results to present a conjecture for a part of the phase diagram of {\cal N}=4 Yang-Mills (as a function of energy and the two angular momenta) that displays several phase transitions between regular black holes and various Grey Galaxy phases. We present an explicit gravitational construction of the phases in which \omega_1 ω 1 and \omega_2 ω 2 are both parametrically close to unity, and demonstrate that the corresponding boundary stress tensor is the sum of two pieces. The first is the stress tensor of the central black hole. The second - the contribution of the bulk gas - has the spatial distribution of the stress tensor of an equilibrated boundary conformal fluid, rotating at the given angular speeds \omega_i ω i . We also briefly comment on the structure of Grey Galaxies in
SN - 2542-4653
ER -