Given that black holes are ubiquitous in the Universe and axionlike scalar fields are potential candidates for dark energy and/or dark matter, it is natural to consider cosmological black holes endowed with axions. We investigate the photon quasinormal modes of a Schwarzschild black hole with axions where the electromagnetic field is coupled to the axion field via a Chern-Simons interaction. We derive the master equations for the electromagnetic field as a set of coupled equations for parity-even and parity-odd modes and numerically compute quasinormal modes by using Leaver’s continued fraction method. We find parity violation in the polarization of photons within the quasinormal mode spectrum. This parity violation in electromagnetic signals could serve as a new probe to explore the nature of the dark sector.

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