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In light of increasing observational evidence supporting the existence of ultra-compact objects, we adopt the term astrophysical black hole to refer to any object having a huge mass confined within a sufficiently small region of spacetime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-19 Jay Verma Trivedi , Pankaj S. Joshi , Gopal-Krishna , Peter L. Biermann

Generalized vector-tensor theories of gravity have drawn attention for admitting hairy black hole solutions, thereby circumventing the standard no-hair theorems. It remains an open question, however, how such black holes may form starting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Hsu-Wen Chiang , Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Aofei Sang

We introduce a family of solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to an anisotropic fluid, describing asymptotically flat black holes with "hair" and a regular horizon. These spacetimes can describe the geometry of galaxies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Vitor Cardoso , Kyriakos Destounis , Francisco Duque , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Andrea Maselli

The Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in five dimensions is extended by scalar fields and the corresponding equations are reduced to a system of non-linear differential equations. A large family of regular solutions of these equations is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-15 Y. Brihaye , L. Ducobu

We address some aspects of black hole spacetimes endowed with a positive cosmological constant, i.e. black holes located inside a cosmological event horizon. First we establish a general criterion for existence of cosmological event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-07 Sourav Bhattacharya

In this work, we investigate the near horizon and asymptotic symmetries of static and rotating hairy$-$AdS black hole in the framework of general minimal massive gravity. We obtain energy, angular momentum and entropy of the solutions. Then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-01 M. R. Setare , Julio Oliva , S. N. Sajadi

We analyze (3+1)-dimensional black-hole space-times in spontaneously broken Yang-Mills gauge theories that have been recently presented as candidates for an evasion of the scalar-no-hair theorem. Although we show that in principle the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 N. E. Mavromatos , Elizabeth Winstanley

Proof that black holes exist will likely require confirmation of the existence of event horizons. The common assumption that the mere existence of large compact masses proves the case for black holes is an unwarranted extrapolation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanley L. Robertson

We calculate the statistical entropy of a rotating hairy black hole by taking into account superradiant modes in the brick wall method. The UV cutoff is independent of the gravitational hair, which gives the well-defined area law of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-23 Myungseok Eune , Yongwan Gim , Wontae Kim

It is a common wisdom that properties of macroscopic bodies are well described by (semi)classical physics. As we have suggested this wisdom is not applicable to black holes. Despite being macroscopic, black holes are quantum objects. They…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-05 Gia Dvali , Cesar Gomez

The recently proved `no short hair' theorem asserts that, if a spherically-symmetric static black hole has hair, then this hair (the external fields) must extend beyond the null circular geodesic (the "photonsphere") of the corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-26 Shahar Hod

We study six-dimensional rotating black holes with bumpy horizons: these are topologically spherical, but the sizes of symmetric cycles on the horizon vary non-monotonically with the polar angle. We construct them numerically for the first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Roberto Emparan , Pau Figueras , Marina Martinez

A class of nonstationary spacetimes is obtained by means of a conformal transformation of the Schwarzschild metric, where the conformal factor $a(t)$ is an arbitrary function of the time coordinate only. We investigate several situations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-05 Marina M. C. Mello , Alan Maciel , Vilson T. Zanchin

This work is an extensive literature review focusing on a few of the important topics in the large-scale structure of spacetime. The work is a Bachelor's thesis submitted at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-18 Rohan Kulkarni

We investigate the interior of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet charged black-hole with scalar hair. We find a variety of dynamical epochs, with the particular important feature that the Cauchy horizon is not present. This makes the violation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Nicolás Grandi , Ignacio Salazar Landea

Multipole moments in general relativity serve as a powerful tool for characterising the gravitational field. In this paper, we review the construction of the Geroch--Hansen multipole moments for stationary asymptotically flat vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Jorn van Voorthuizen

Recently, a no inner (Cauchy) horizon theorem for static black holes with non-trivial scalar hairs has been proved in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theories. In this paper, we extend the theorem to the static black holes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Deniz O. Devecioglu , Mu-In Park

We consider general relativistic Cauchy data representing two nonspinning, equal-mass black holes boosted toward each other. When the black holes are close enough to each other and their momentum is sufficiently high, an encompassing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Andrew M. Abrahams , Gregory B. Cook

Observations of the black hole shadow of supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, allow us to study the properties of black holes and the nature of strong-field gravity. According to the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Dimitry Ayzenberg , Nicolas Yunes

We present a family of solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to a complex, massive scalar field, describing asymptotically flat, spinning black holes with scalar hair and a regular horizon. These hairy black holes (HBHs) are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu