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In this paper, we study the spontaneous scalarization of Reissner-Nordstr{\"o}% m (RN) black holes enclosed by a cavity in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar (EMS) model with non-minimal couplings between the scalar and Maxwell fields. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Feiyu Yao

It has recently been demonstrated that Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes in composed Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field theories can support static scalar field configurations with a non-minimal negative coupling to the Maxwell electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Shahar Hod

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

Scalarization is a mechanism that endows strongly self-gravitating bodies, such as neutron stars and black holes, with a scalar-field configuration. It resembles a phase transition in that the scalar configuration appears only when a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Daniela D. Doneva , Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu , Hector O. Silva , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In the present paper we study the onset of the spin-induced scalarization of a Kerr black hole in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a massive scalar field. Our approach is based on a (2+1) time evolution of the relevant linearized scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Daniela D. Doneva , Lucas G. Collodel , Christian J. Krüger , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

The scalarization is a very interesting phenomena allowing to endow a compact object with scalar hair while leaving all the predictions in the weak field limit unaltered. In Gauss-Bonnet gravity the source of the scalar field can be the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Daniela D. Doneva , Lucas G. Collodel , Christian J. Krüger , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We investigate spin-induced scalarization of Kerr black holes in an Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) model that does not admit a linear tachyonic instability of the scalar-free solution. The scalarization mechanism is therefore genuinely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Meng-Yun Lai , Hyat Huang , Jutta Kunz , Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou

In this paper, we study static and spherically symmetric black hole (BH) solutions in the scalar-tensor theories with the coupling of the scalar field to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term $\xi (\phi) R_{\rm GB}$, where $R_{\rm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-14 Masato Minamitsuji , Taishi Ikeda

The Gauss-Bonnet (GB) scalarization for charged quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder (cqOS)-black holes is investigated in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-scalar theory with the nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) term. Here, the scalar coupling function to GB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Hong Guo , Wontae Kim , Yun Soo Myung

We investigate the spontaneous scalarization of charged Taub-NUT black holes within the framework of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. By selecting a suitable coupling function, the theory admits the analytic charged Taub-NUT…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-20 Lei Zhang , Hai-Shan Liu

In the present paper, we construct spontaneously scalarized rotating black hole solutions in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity by following the scalar field evolution in the decoupling limit. For the range of parameters where the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In general relativity, all vacuum black holes are described by the Kerr solution. Beyond general relativity, there is a prevailing expectation that deviations from the Kerr solution increase with the horizon curvature. We challenge this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Astrid Eichhorn , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Aaron Held , Hector O. Silva

In the context of the Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory, with a general coupling function between the scalar field and the quadratic Gauss-Bonnet term, we investigate the existence of regular black-hole solutions with scalar hair. Based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 G. Antoniou , A. Bakopoulos , P. Kanti

We conduct numerical simulations of inspiraling, oppositely-charged black holes in the class of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theories that exhibit spontaneous black hole scalarization. For quasi-circular, equal-mass binaries near the existence…

Spontaneous scalarization is an interesting mechanism for modification of gravity by nonminimal coupling of a scalar field to matter or curvature invariants in the context of scalar-tensor theories, and its onset is signaled by linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-21 Hayato Motohashi , Shinji Mukohyama

The phenomenon of spontaneous scalarisation of charged black holes (BHs) has recently motivated studies of various Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models. Within these models, different classes of BH solutions are possible, depending on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-25 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Jutta Kunz , Alexandre M. Pombo , Eugen Radu

We study the critical dynamics in the scalarization and descalarization in the fully nonlinear dynamical evolution in a general theory with scalar field coupling with both Gauss-Bonnet invariant and Ricci scalar. We explore how the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-31 Yunqi Liu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Qian Chen , Zhoujian Cao , Yu Tian , Bin Wang

The mass of a scalar field mediating a fifth force is tightly constrained by experiments. We show, however, that adding a quartic self-interaction for such a scalar makes most tests much less constraining: the non-linear equation of motion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven S. Gubser , Justin Khoury

We examine the interactions of a black hole with a massless scalar field using a coordinate system which extends ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates to dynamic spherically symmetric-spacetimes. We avoid problems with the singularity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Robert L. Marsa , Matthew W. Choptuik

One of the most promising avenues to perform numerical evolutions in theories beyond General Relativity is the fixing-the-equations approach, a proposal in which new ``driver'' equations are added to the evolution equations in a way that…