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Scalar hair of black holes in theories with a shift symmetry are constrained by the no-hair theorem of Hui and Nicolis, assuming spherical symmetry, time-independence of the scalar field and asymptotic flatness. The most studied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-12 Paolo Creminelli , Nicolás Loayza , Francesco Serra , Enrico Trincherini , Leonardo G. Trombetta

According to the no-hair theorem, static black holes are described by a Schwarzschild spacetime provided there are no other sources of the gravitational field. This requirement, however, is in astrophysical realistic scenarios often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Norman Gürlebeck

We consider charged black holes with scalar hair obtained in a class of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models, where the scalar field is coupled to the Maxwell invariant with a quartic coupling function. Besides the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-04 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Sarah Kahlen , Jutta Kunz

Scalar fields coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant evade the known no-hair theorems and have nontrivial configurations around black holes. We focus on a scalar field that couples linearly to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant and hence exhibits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 Robert Benkel , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Helvi Witek

We consider Einstein gravity minimally coupled to two Maxwell fields and one (real) dilaton scalar. We study the electrically-charged spherically-symmetric and static solutions that are asymptotic to Minkowski spacetime. General solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Guan-Yi Lu , Meng-Nan Yang , H. Lu

We study no-hair theorem for horizonless objects, being subject to Neumann boundary conditions. For massive scalar fields, a no hair theorem for Neumann compact stars was proved by us in a previous paper, where the nonzero scalar field mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 Yan Peng

A linear coupling between a scalar field and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant is the only known interaction term between a scalar and the metric that: respects shift symmetry; does not lead to higher order equations; inevitably introduces black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 Robert Benkel , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Helvi Witek

The recent detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration has allowed for the first tests of Einstein's theory in the extreme gravity regime, where the gravitational interaction is simultaneously strong, non-linear and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-11 Pratik Wagle , Nicolas Yunes , David Garfinkle , Lydia Bieri

According to the no-hair theorem, astrophysical black holes are uniquely described by their mass and spin. In this paper, we review a new framework for testing the no-hair hypothesis with observations in the electromagnetic spectrum. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Tim Johannsen , Dimitrios Psaltis

The no-short hair theorem for static spherically symmetric black holes in general theory of relativity asserts that if a black hole has hair, that hair must extend beyond the lowest photon sphere radius of the black hole. This report…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Mandas Biswas

Through numerical simulations of a minimally coupled massive Klein-Gordon scalar field, we show that it is possible to grow hair on a Schwarzschild black hole if one assumes an initial periodically time-varying but spatially homogeneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Katy Clough , Pedro G. Ferreira , Macarena Lagos

The no-hair theorem postulates that the only externally observable properties of a black hole are its mass, its electric charge, and its angular momentum. In scalar-tensor theories of gravity, a matter distribution around a black hole can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-14 Tomi Koivisto , Hannu J. Nyrhinen

Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-gravity (EGB) coupled minimally to a $U(1)$ gauged, massive scalar field possesses -- for appropriate choices of the $U(1)$ charge -- black hole solutions that carry charged scalar hair if the frequency of the harmonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

We present a class of exact scalar-tensor black holes for a shift-symmetric part of the Horndeski action. The action includes a higher order scalar tensor interaction term. We find that for a static and spherically symmetric space-time, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-11 Eugeny Babichev , Christos Charmousis

The unexpected discovery of hairy black hole solutions in theories with scalar fields simply by considering asymptotically Anti de-Sitter, rather than asymptotically flat, boundary conditions is analyzed in a way that exhibits in a clear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Daniel Sudarsky , Jose Antonio Gonzalez

We investigate the late-time tails of self-interacting (massive) scalar fields in the spacetime of dilaton black hole. Following the no hair theorem we examine the mechanism by which self-interacting scalar hair decay. We revealed that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Moderski , M. Rogatko

The detection of black hole scalar hair, a possible deviation from general relativity's "no-hair" theorem, requires sensitive probes beyond conventional methods. This study proposes chaotic dynamics as a novel indicator for scalar hair in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Yang Yu , Ruo-Ting Chen , Shulan Li , Dan Zhang , Jian-Pin Wu

We study analytically the initial value problem for a charged massless scalar-field on a Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime. Using the technique of spectral decomposition we extend recent results on this problem. Following the no-hair theorem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Shahar Hod , Tsvi Piran

We study no-hair properties of static black holes in four and higher dimensional spacetimes with a cosmological constant. For the vanishing cosmological constant case, we show a no-hair theorem and also a no-short-hair theorem under certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-29 Akihiro Ishibashi , Satoshi Matsumoto , Yuichiro Yoneo

Motivated by black hole solutions with matter fields outside their horizon, we study the effect of these matter fields in the motion of massless and massive particles. We consider as background a four-dimensional asymptotically AdS black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-19 P. A. Gonzalez , Marco Olivares , Yerko Vasquez