| Summary: | Black holes are influenced by external gravitational fields in the universe, which are generated by other astrophysical objects in their surroundings. Because of this gravitational interaction, they experience tidal deformations of their event horizons. To quantify this effect, we compute the so-called Love numbers, which measure the deformability of the event horizon. Theoretical results from several authors have shown that Love numbers vanish for black hole solutions in four-dimensional spacetime. But does this behavior persist for black hole solutions in higher-dimensional spacetimes? In our presentation, we aim to address this question by demonstrating that, unlike their lower-dimensional counterparts, higher-dimensional rotating black holes exhibit nonvanishing Love numbers.
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