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Non-singular black hole geometries typically come with two spacetime horizons: an (outer) event horizon and an (inner) Cauchy horizon. This nurtures the speculation that they may be subject to a mass-inflation effect which renders the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-18 Alfio Bonanno , Amir-Pouyan Khosravi , Frank Saueressig

We study the interior dynamics of spontaneously scalarized black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar theory with zero cosmological constant, revealing novel critical phenomena. We demonstrate that, for a wide range of scalar-electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Li Li , Ze Sun , Fu-Guo Yang

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity where a new scalar degree of freedom couples to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can exhibit the phenomenon of spontaneous black hole scalarization. These theories admit both the classic black holes predicted by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Hector O. Silva , Caio F. B. Macedo , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Jeremy Sakstein , Emanuele Berti

In this study, we investigate a nonlinear mechanism driving the formation of scalarized rotating black holes within a scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity framework that includes an additional squared Gauss-Bonnet term. With the specific coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Shoupan Liu , Yunqi Liu , Yan Peng , Cheng-Yong Zhang

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 the present paper we consider the extended scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a massive scalar field. We prove numerically the existence of Gauss-Bonnet black holes for three different forms of the coupling function including the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-29 Daniela D. Doneva , Kalin V. Staykov , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Is it possible the no-hair paradigm is violated when a black hole undergoes an instability? Employing massless charged scalar perturbations, we address this question within the context of conformally invariant Einstein-Maxwell theory for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-01 Afsaneh Rahmani , Mohsen Khodadi , Matin Honardoost , Hamid Reza Sepangi

An exact solution representing black holes in an expanding universe is found. The black holes are maximally charged and the universe is expanding with arbitrary equation of state. It is an exact solution of the Einstein-scalar-Maxwell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-14 Gary W. Gibbons , Kei-ichi Maeda

Recently new scalarized black hole solutions were constructed in the extended scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, where the scalar field is sourced by the curvature of the spacetime via the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. A natural extension of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Daniela D. Doneva , Stella Kiorpelidi , Petya G. Nedkova , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We have discovered a new type of scalarized charged black holes in a surprisingly simple system: an Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon field theory where the three fields couple non-minimally through a Horndeski vector-tensor term. In addition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Y. Brihaye , Y. Verbin

In a new gravitational theory with the trace anomaly recently proposed by Gabadadze, we study the existence of hairy black hole solutions on a static and spherically symmetric background. In this theory, the effective 4-dimensional action…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Shinji Tsujikawa

We analyse the superradiant stability of braneworld extremal Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes under massive scalar perturbation. These black hole solutions differ from their four dimensional counterpart by the presence of a tidal charge,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-02 Shauvik Biswas

Black holes provide a natural laboratory to study particle physics and astrophysics. When black holes are surrounded by matter fields, there will be plenty of phenomena which can have observational consequences, from which we can learn…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Zhen Li

We study the interior of a recently constructed family of asymptotically flat, charged black holes that develop (charged) scalar hair as one increases their charge at fixed mass. Inside the horizon, these black holes resemble the interior…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Oscar J. C. Dias , Gary T. Horowitz , Jorge E. Santos

The black hole superradiance phenomena state that when a scalar wave perturbation is properly scattering off a charged or rotating black hole, the energy of the reflected scalar wave may be amplified. If this amplification process can occur…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Jia-Hui Huang , Mu-Zi Zhang , Tian-Tian Cao , Yi-Feng Zou , Zhan-Feng Mai

Using the late-time expansion we calculate the leading-order coefficients describing the evolution of a massless scalar field inside a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole. These coefficients may be interpreted as the reflection and transmission…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Amos Ori

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

A massless scalar field exhibits an instability at the event horizon of an extreme black hole. We study numerically the nonlinear evolution of this instability for spherically symmetric perturbations of an extreme Reissner-Nordstrom (RN)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Keiju Murata , Harvey S. Reall , Norihiro Tanahashi

These lecture notes are concerned with linear stability of the non-extreme Kerr geometry under perturbations of general spin. After a brief review of the Kerr black hole and its symmetries, we describe these symmetries by Killing fields and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Felix Finster

Magnetic fields surrounding spinning black holes can confine radiation and trigger superradiant instabilities. To investigate this effect, we perform the first fully-consistent linear analysis of the Ernst spacetime, an exact solution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-29 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani