Black holes with electroweak hair
Abstract
We construct static and axially symmetric magnetically charged hairy black holes in the gravity-coupled Weinberg-Salam theory. Large black holes merge with the Reissner-Nordstr\"om (RN) family, while the small ones are extremal and support a hair in the form of a ring-shaped electroweak condensate carrying superconducting W-currents and up to of the total magnetic charge. The extremal solutions are asymptotically RN with a mass {\it below} the total charge, , due to the negative Zeeman energy of the condensate interacting with the black hole magnetic field. Therefore, they cannot decay into RN black holes. As their charge increases, they show a phase transition when the horizon symmetry changes from spherical to oblate. At this point they have the mass typical for planetary size black holes of which is stored in the hair. Being obtained within a well-tested theory, our solutions are expected to be physically relevant.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2406.14357,
title = {Black holes with electroweak hair},
author = {Romain Gervalle and Mikhail S. Volkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14357},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
5+8 pages, 5+1 figures, matches the published version