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We obtain spinning boson star solutions and hairy black holes with synchronised hair in the Einstein-Klein-Gordon model, wherein the scalar field is massive, complex and with a non-minimal coupling to the Ricci scalar. The existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

According to the no-hair theorem, astrophysical black holes are uniquely characterized by their masses and spins and are described by the Kerr metric. Several parametric deviations from the Kerr metric have been suggested to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-24 Tim Johannsen , Dimitrios Psaltis

Twenty years have passed since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe, reviving the interest for alternative theories of gravity. Adding a scalar degree of freedom to the usual metric of general relativity is one of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-11 Antoine Lehébel

Hairy black holes by gravitational decoupling (GD) are probed to derive the gravitational waveform produced by perturbation theory applied to these compact objects. Using the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations governing the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-04 V. F. Guimarães , R. T. Cavalcanti , R. da Rocha

We derive the general conditions for a large family of shift symmetry breaking degenerate higher order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories to admit stealth black hole solutions. Such black hole configurations correspond to vacuum solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Jibril Ben Achour , Hongguang Liu

Black holes have a unique sensitivity to the presence of ultralight matter fields or modifications of the underlying theory of gravity. In the present paper we combine both features by studying an ultralight, dynamical scalar field that is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Chloe Richards , Alexandru Dima , Helvi Witek

Thanks to the release of the extraordinary EHT image of shadow attributed to the M87* supermassive black hole (SMBH), we have a novel window to assess the validity of fundamental physics in the strong-field regime. Motivated by this, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Mohsen Khodadi , Gaetano Lambiase , David F. Mota

In four-dimensional vacuum general relativity the only known static, exact and analytical black hole solution is given by the Schwarzschild spacetime. In this paper this renowned metric is generalised by adding another integrating constant,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Marco Astorino

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

Inspired by the recent proposal of soft hair on black holes in Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231301 (2016), we have shown that an isolated horizon carries soft hairs implanted by electromagnetic fields. The solution space and the asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 Pujian Mao , Xiaoning Wu , Hongbao Zhang

We investigate the orbit equations and the eikonal equation for light respectively, under influence of the hairy black holes (asymptotically flat) in four dimensions. We consider two hairy black hole solutions with non-trivial potentials,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-06 David Choque , Willson D. Llerena , Jhiwsell D. Vargas

Kerr black holes with scalar hair are solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon field equations describing regular (on and outside an event horizon), asymptotically flat black holes with scalar hair (arXiv:1403.2757). These black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-05 Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

Using gravitational decoupling under the requirements of a well-defined event horizon and the source matter satisfying the weak energy condition, we construct nonsingular hairy black holes with spherical or axial symmetry. These solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-24 Yaobin Hua , Rong-Jia Yang

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

General relativity admits a plethora of exact compact object solutions. The augmentation of Einstein's action with non-minimal coupling terms leads to modified theories with rich structure, which, in turn, provide non-trivial solutions with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-31 Nikos Chatzifotis , Christoforos Vlachos , Kyriakos Destounis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

There are many observational evidences for the detection of compact objects with masses significantly larger (in galactic cases) or much larger (in extragalactic cases) than the upper limits of masses of em cold Neutron Stars. Such compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhas Mitra

We analyze numerically the existence of regular stationary rotating hairy black holes within the framework of general relativity, which are the result of solving the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system for a complex-valued scalar field under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Gustavo García , Eric Gourgoulhon , Philippe Grandclément , Marcelo Salgado

We show that, unlike vacuum General Relativity, Einstein-scalar theories allow balanced static, neutral, asymptotically flat, double-black hole solutions, for scalar field models minimally coupled to gravity, with appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

It has been previously shown that a Gauss-Bonnet term non-minimally coupled to a scalar field produces a scalarised black hole solution, which can be considered as having secondary scalar hair, parametrised in terms of the black hole's mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 Callum L Hunter , Douglas J Smith

To what extent are all astrophysical, dark, compact objects both black holes (BHs) and described by the Kerr geometry? We embark on the exercise of defying the universality of this remarkable idea, often called the "Kerr hypothesis". After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro