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  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Portugal Leader Award
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Overview

Vitor Cardoso is affiliated with Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal and has a substantial body of research in physics and astronomy, with a particular focus on gravitational phenomena and black hole physics. Their work spans several key topics including pulsars and gravitational waves research, cosmology and gravitation theories, astrophysical phenomena and observations, black holes and theoretical physics, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, dark matter and cosmic phenomena, and relativity and gravitational theory.

Their frequent collaborators include Francisco Duque, Emanuele Berti, Richard Brito, Paolo Pani, and Andrea Maselli, reflecting a well-connected research network in gravitational physics and related fields.

Publication venues where Vitor Cardoso regularly contributes include:

  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Vitor Cardoso demonstrate active engagement in topics related to gravitational waves and black hole physics:

  • "Black holes in galaxies: Environmental impact on gravitational-wave generation and propagation" (2022), Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Gravitational Waves from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Systems in Astrophysical Environments" (2022), Physical Review Letters

Other notable recent publications where Cardoso is a coauthor include:

  • "Detection of the Schwarzschild precession in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole" (2020), Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • "Mass distribution in the Galactic Center based on interferometric astrometry of multiple stellar orbits" (2021), Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "Nonlinear Effects in Black Hole Ringdown" (2023), Physical Review Letters

Cardoso has also contributed to the academic literature through book publications related to black hole physics and superradiance. This includes works published by Springer Science+Business Media and Cornell University:

  • Superradiance (2020), Springer Science+Business Media
  • Superradiance. New Frontiers in Black Hole Physics (2020), Cornell University

Their main fields of study are in physics and astronomy, with subfields covering astronomy and astrophysics, nuclear and high energy physics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, statistical and nonlinear physics, and ocean engineering.

Best Publications

  • Quasinormal modes of black holes and black branes

    Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Andrei O. Starinets

  • Testing general relativity with present and future astrophysical observations

    Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Enrico Barausse;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Leonardo Gualtieri

  • Gravitational-wave spectroscopy of massive black holes with the space interferometer LISA

    Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;Clifford M. Will

  • Geodesic stability, Lyapunov exponents, and quasinormal modes

    Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Alex S. Miranda;Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Helvi Witek;Helvi Witek

  • Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

    Leor Barack;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Samaya Nissanke;Samaya Nissanke;Samaya Nissanke;Thomas P. Sotiriou

  • Testing the nature of dark compact objects: a status report

    Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Paolo Pani

  • Is the Gravitational-Wave Ringdown a Probe of the Event Horizon?

    Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Edgardo Franzin;Edgardo Franzin;Paolo Pani;Paolo Pani

  • Gravitational-wave signatures of exotic compact objects and of quantum corrections at the horizon scale

    Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Seth Hopper;Caio F. B. Macedo;Carlos Palenzuela

  • Can environmental effects spoil precision gravitational-wave astrophysics?

    Enrico Barausse;Enrico Barausse;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Paolo Pani;Paolo Pani

  • Detection of the Schwarzschild precession in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole

    R. Abuter;A. Amorim;M. Bauböck;J. P. Berger;J. P. Berger

  • Black-hole bomb and superradiant instabilities

    Vitor Cardoso;Óscar J. C. Dias;José P. S. Lemos;Shijun Yoshida

  • Inspiral, merger, and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries: A multipolar analysis

    Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;José A. Gonzalez;Ulrich Sperhake

  • Scalar, electromagnetic and Weyl perturbations of BTZ black holes: Quasinormal modes

    Vitor Cardoso;Jose {prime} P. S. Lemos

  • Quasinormal modes of Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter black holes: Electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations

    Vitor Cardoso;Jose P.S. Lemos

  • Erratum: Is the Gravitational-Wave Ringdown a Probe of the Event Horizon? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 171101 (2016)].

    Vitor Cardoso;Edgardo Franzin;Paolo Pani

  • Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics in four and higher dimensions

    Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;Marc Casals

  • Tests for the existence of black holes through gravitational wave echoes

    Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Paolo Pani

  • Quasinormal modes and Strong Cosmic Censorship

    Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;João L. Costa;João L. Costa;Kyriakos Destounis;Peter Hintz

  • Superradiance: Energy Extraction, Black-Hole Bombs and Implications for Astrophysics and Particle Physics

    Richard Brito;Vitor Cardoso;Paolo Pani

  • SCALAR, ELECTROMAGNETIC AND WEYL PERTURBATONS OF BTZ BLACK HOLES: QUASI NORMAL MODES

    Vitor Cardoso;Jose P. S. Lemos

Frequent Co-Authors

Emanuele Berti
Emanuele Berti Johns Hopkins University
Ulrich Sperhake
Ulrich Sperhake University of Cambridge
Paolo Pani
Paolo Pani Sapienza University of Rome
Carlos A. R. Herdeiro
Carlos A. R. Herdeiro University of Aveiro
Nicolás Yunes
Nicolás Yunes University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz Cardiff University
N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
Clifford M. Will
Clifford M. Will University of Florida
Karsten Danzmann
Karsten Danzmann Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

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