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Despite the no-hair theorem, several notable hairy black hole (BH) solutions exist in both General Relativity and modified gravity theories. For such hairs to be detectable, they must extend sufficiently beyond the event horizon. This idea…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Rajes Ghosh , Chiranjeeb Singha

Black holes (BHs) with synchronized bosonic hair challenge the Kerr paradigm, linking superradiance from ultralight fields -- creating gravitational atoms -- to bosonic stars across parameter space. In the ''very hairy'' regime, where a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Jordan Nicoules , José Ferreira , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Miguel Zilhão

We study Kerr black holes with synchronised non-trivial parity-odd massive scalar hair in four dimensional asymptotically flat space-time. These axially symmetric stationary spinning solutions of the minimally coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 J. Kunz , I. Perapechka , Ya. Shnir

We present a new rotating black hole solution to the Einstein equations as an extension of the Kerr spacetime. Interestingly, the solution we find may not be uniquely characterized by asymptotic parameters such as mass, angular momentum,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Wonwoo Lee

We have recently reported (arXiv:1403.2757) the existence of Kerr black holes with scalar hair in General Relativity minimally coupled to a massive, complex scalar field. These solutions interpolate between boson stars and Kerr black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-17 Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

For the short hairs that have a significant impact only near the event horizon, studying their strong gravitational lensing effects is of great significance for revealing the properties of these hairs. In this study, we systematically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Lai Zhao , Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

We develop a new technique for finding black hole solutions in modified gravity that have "stealth" hair, i.e., hair whose only gravitational effect is to tune the cosmological constant. We consider scalar-tensor theories in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-16 Christos Charmousis , Marco Crisostomi , Ruth Gregory , Nikolaos Stergioulas

A class of exact rotating black hole solutions of gravity nonminimally coupled to a self-interacting scalar field in arbitrary dimensions is presented. These spacetimes are asymptotically locally anti-de Sitter manifolds and have a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Cristián Erices , Cristian Martinez

We study the shadows cast by rotating hairy black holes with two non-trivial time-periodic scalar fields having a non-flat Gaussian curvature of the target space spanned by the scalar fields. Such black holes are a viable alternative to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-09 Galin N. Gyulchev , Ayush Roy , Lucas G. Collodel , Petya G. Nedkova , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Daniela D. Doneva

We consider the quasinormal modes, quasibound states and superradiant instability of a rotating hairy black hole, which possesses a Horndeski hair as deviation from Kerr black hole, under the perturbation of massive scalar field. With the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Yun-He Lei , Zhen-Hao Yang , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We here review asymptotically flat rotating black holes in the presence of non-Abelian gauge fields. Like their static counterparts these black holes are no longer uniquely determined by their global charges. In the case of pure SU(2)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-07 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Francisco Navarro-Lerida

In the presence of a complex scalar field scalar-tensor theory allows for scalarized rotating hairy black holes. We exhibit the domain of existence for these scalarized black holes, which is bounded by scalarized rotating boson stars and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-24 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

We study a simple theory based on general relativity, minimally coupled to a constrained scalar triplet and to an auxiliary non-propagating three-form sector. Within a spherically symmetric hedgehog ansatz, the theory admits a continuous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Sebastian Bahamonde

We investigate thin-disk imaging of Kerr black holes with synchronized scalar hair, focusing on backreacted parity-odd excited states of a complex scalar field minimally coupled to Einstein gravity. The spacetime displays a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Qian Wan , Yehui Hou , Yang Huang , Peng-Cheng Li , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

We study the perturbative behaviour of topological black holes with scalar hair. We calculate both analytically and numerically the quasi-normal modes of the electromagnetic perturbations. In the case of small black holes we find evidence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 George Koutsoumbas , Suphot Musiri , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , George Siopsis

We introduce a systematic and direct procedure to generate hairy rotating black holes by deforming a spherically symmetric seed solution. We develop our analysis in the context of the gravitational decoupling approach, without resorting to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-12 E. Contreras , J. Ovalle , R. Casadio

Originally regarded as forbidden, black hole ``hair'' are fields associated with a stationary black hole apart from the gravitational and electromagnetic ones. Several stable stationary black hole solutions with gauge or Skyrme field hair…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacob D. Bekenstein

We investigate the orbital structure and observable appearance of rotating Kerr black holes endowed with synchronized scalar hair described by two time-periodic scalar fields with a flat target-space geometry. The presence of scalar hair…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Galin N. Gyulchev , Daniela D. Doneva , Valentin O. Deliyski , Petya G. Nedkova , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

The evidence for supermassive Kerr black holes in galactic centers is strong and growing, but only the detection of gravitational waves will convincingly rule out other possibilities to explain the observations. The Kerr spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso

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