My Research Projects

I have published 17 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 1 Physical Review Letters, 9 Physical Review D , and 2 JHEP papers, among others.

Forward Ray Tracing and Hot Spots in Kerr Spacetime

arXiv: 2408.16049

Lihang Zhou, Zhen Zhong, Yifan Chen and Vitor Cardoso

Dynamical Lensing Tomography of Black Hole Ringdown

arXiv: 2408.10303

Zhen Zhong, Vitor Cardoso and Yifan Chen

Hushing black holes: Tails in dynamical spacetimes

Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 12, L121502, arXiv: 2405.12290, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L121502

Vitor Cardoso, Gregorio Carullo, Marina De Amicis, Francisco Duque, Takuya Katagiri, David Pereniguez, Jaime Redondo-Yuste, Thomas F.M. Spieksma and Zhen Zhong

Energy Extraction from Q-balls and Other Fundamental Solitons

Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 11, 111602, arXiv: 2307.13734, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.111602

Vitor Cardoso, Rodrigo Vicente and Zhen Zhong

Piercing of a solitonic boson star by a black hole

Phys.Rev.D 108 (2023) 8, 084051, arXiv: 2307.02548, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.084051

Zhen Zhong, Vitor Cardoso, Taishi Ikeda and Miguel Zilhão

Energy extraction from bouncing geometries

Phys.Rev.D 108 (2023) 2, 024071, arXiv: 2304.08520, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.024071

Vitor Cardoso, João L. Costa, José Natário and Zhen Zhong

Instability of ultracompact horizonless spacetimes

Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 4, 044035, arXiv: 2211.16526, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.044035

Zhen Zhong, Vitor Cardoso and Elisa Maggio

Piercing of a boson star by a black hole

Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 4, 044030, arXiv: 2206.00021, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.044030

Vitor Cardoso, Taishi Ikeda, Zhen Zhong and Miguel Zilhão

Light rings and long-lived modes in quasiblack hole spacetimes

Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 2, 024049, arXiv: 2108.08967, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.024049

Minyong Guo, Zhen Zhong, Jinguang Wang and Sijie Gao

QED effects on Kerr black hole shadows immersed in uniform magnetic fields

Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 10, 104028, arXiv: 2108.06140, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.104028

Zhen Zhong, Zezhou Hu, Haopeng Yan, Minyong Guo and Bin Chen

QED effect on a black hole shadow

Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 4, 044057, arXiv: 2012.07022, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.044057

Zezhou Hu, Zhen Zhong, Peng-Cheng Li, Minyong Guo and Bin Chen

Relaxation rate of RNdS black hole

Phys.Lett.B 806 (2020) 135523, arXiv: 2005.12722, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135523

Ming Zhang, Jie Jiang and Zhen Zhong

The fastest relaxation rate of higher-dimensional Reissner–Nordström black hole

Phys.Lett.B 798 (2019) 134959, arXiv: 1909.08562, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134959

Ming Zhang, Jie Jiang and Zhen Zhong

Strong cosmic censorship for the Dirac field in the higher dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom--de Sitter black hole

JHEP 10 (2019) 186, arXiv: 1909.07904, DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)186

Xiaoyi Liu, Stijn Van Vooren, Hongbao Zhang and Zhen Zhong

The longlived charged massive scalar field in the higher-dimensional Reissner–Nordström spacetime

Phys.Lett.B 789 (2019)arXiv: 1811.04183, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.072

Ming Zhang, Jie Jiang and Zhen Zhong

Strong cosmic censorship for the massless Dirac field in the Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter spacetime

JHEP 01 (2019) 123, arXiv: 1810.12128, DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2019)123

Boxuan Ge, Jie Jiang, Bin Wang, Hongbao Zhang and Zhen Zhong

Strong cosmic censorship for the massless charged scalar field in the Reissner-Nordstrom–de Sitter spacetime

Phys.Rev.D 98 (2018) 12, 124025, arXiv: 1808.03635, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.124025

Yuyu Mo, Yu Tian, Bin Wang, Hongbao Zhang and Zhen Zhong