We derive the model of the Schwarzschild black hole immersed into a dark matter halo with a relativistic Hernquist profile, the Schwarzschild-Hernquist black hole, and obtain its tidal Love numbers and quasinormal modes. We thoroughly compare our odd and even parity perturbation equations with the literature and point out that two distinct choices of matter perturbations lead to distinct spectra. We establish that the quasinormal modes admit qualitatively distinct scaling laws in terms of dark matter densities for nonrelativistic and relativistic halos. We develop a stable numerical scheme for computing tidal Love numbers based on asymptotic series expansions. We further comment upon the existence of matter configurations obeying the dominant energy condition that leads to multiple light rings.

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• Dark matter
• Gravitational wave sources
• Massive compact halo objects
• Classical black holes
• Galactic halos