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Recent studies have made key progress on the black hole/solitonic solutions of the Einstein-Proca system. Firstly, fully non-linear dynamical evolutions of the Kerr black hole superradiant instability, triggered by a Proca field, have shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Nuno M. Santos , Carolina L. Benone , Luís C. B. Crispino , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

We study odd parity perturbations of spherically symmetric black holes with time-dependent scalar hair in shift-symmetric higher-order scalar-tensor theories. The analysis is performed in a general way without assuming the degeneracy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Keitaro Tomikawa , Tsutomu Kobayashi

Recently it was pointed out that in shift-symmetric scalar-tensor theories a black hole can have nontrivial scalar hair which depends linearly on time. We develop black hole perturbation theory for such solutions and compute the quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-13 Hiromu Ogawa , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Teruaki Suyama

We study linear perturbations about static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions with stealth scalar hair in degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories. We clarify master variables and derive the quadratic Lagrangian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Kazufumi Takahashi , Hayato Motohashi

We model a single black hole in equilibrium with a dark photon-cold dark matter environment. Representing the dark photon as a Proca field, we show that a Schwarzschild black hole grows vector-field "hair" when allowed to accrete from an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Fredric Hancock , Helvi Witek

We perform a fully relativistic analysis of odd-type linear perturbations around a static and spherically symmetric solution in the most general scalar-tensor theory with second-order field equations in four-dimensional spacetime. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama

We study the stability under linear odd-parity perturbations of static spherically symmetric black holes in Horndeski gravity. We derive the master equation for these perturbations and obtain the conditions of no-ghost and Laplacian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-03 Apratim Ganguly , Radouane Gannouji , Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Carlos Pizarro-Moya

This work presents a new class of exact analytic rotating black hole solutions within five-dimensional generalized Proca theories. Through a Kerr-Schild ansatz where the Proca field is set along a null geodesic congruence, the non-linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Mokhtar Hassaine , Ulises Hernandez-Vera

Shift-symmetric Horndeski theories admit an interesting class of Schwarzschild black hole solutions exhibiting time-dependent scalar hair. By making use of Lema\^{i}tre coordinates, we analyze perturbations around these types of black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Justin Khoury , Mark Trodden , Sam S. C. Wong

We investigate the classical stability of the higher-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes against linear perturbations, in the framework of a gauge-invariant formalism for gravitational perturbations of maximally symmetric black holes,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Akihiro Ishibashi , Hideo Kodama

In the presence of non-minimal gravitational couplings, matter field perturbations on a static black hole spacetime may develop unphysical poles in their linearized equations. Physical solutions confined in the domain between the event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Hsu-Wen Chiang , Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Aofei Sang

In the present paper we study the scalar sector of the quasinormal modes of charged general relativistic, static and spherically symmetric black holes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics and embedded in a class of scalar-tensor theories.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-15 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Ivan Zh. Stefanov

We study the linear perturbations about nonrotating black holes in the context of degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories, using a systematic approach that extracts the asymptotic behaviour of perturbations (at spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 David Langlois , Karim Noui , Hugo Roussille

In shift-symmetric Horndeski theories, a static and spherically symmetric black hole can support linearly time-dependent scalar hair. However, it was shown that such a solution generically suffers from ghost or gradient instability in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-22 Daria A. Tretyakova , Kazufumi Takahashi

In four-dimensional scalar-tensor theories derived via dimensional regularization with a conformal rescaling of the metric, we study the stability of planar black holes (BHs) whose horizons are described by two-dimensional compact Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

We investigate black hole solutions with time-dependent (scalar) hair in scalar-tensor theories. Known exact solutions exist for such theories at the background level, where the metric takes on a standard GR form (e.g. Schwarzschild-de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Sergi Sirera , Johannes Noller

Inspired by possibility that the Schwarzschild black hole may not be the unique spherically symmetric vacuum solution to generalisations of general relativity, we consider black holes in pure fourth order higher derivative gravity treated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-12 Kevin Goldstein , James Junior Mashiyane

We study linear perturbations about non rotating black hole solutions in scalar-tensor theories, more specifically Horndeski theories. We consider two particular theories that admit known hairy black hole solutions. The first one,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 David Langlois , Karim Noui , Hugo Roussille

In $U(1)$ gauge-invariant scalar-vector-tensor theories with second-order equations of motion, we study the properties of black holes (BH) on a static and spherically symmetric background. In shift-symmetric theories invariant under the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-10 Lavinia Heisenberg , Shinji Tsujikawa

Einsteinian cubic gravity is a higher-order gravitational theory in which the linearized field equations of motion match Einstein's equations on a maximally symmetric background. This theory allows the existence of a static and spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa