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Recent studies have demonstrated that a scalar field non-minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field can experience a spin-induced tachyonic instability near Kerr-Newman black holes, potentially driving the formation of scalar clouds. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Tianshu Wu , Haitang Yang

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

We present spontaneous scalarization of charged black holes (BHs) which is induced by the coupling of the scalar field to the electromagnetic field strength and the double-dual Riemann tensor $L^{\mu\nu\alpha\beta}F_{\mu\nu}F_{\alpha\beta}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-13 Taishi Ikeda , Tomohiro Nakamura , Masato Minamitsuji

Recently, a new nonlinear mechanism for black hole scalarization, different from the standard spontaneous scalarization, was demonstrated to exist for scalar Gauss-Bonnet theories in which no tachyonic instabilities can occur. Thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva

Scalar-tensor theories are a natural alternative to general relativity, as they may provide an effective dark energy phenomenology on cosmological scales while passing local tests, but their black hole solutions are still poorly understood.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Lodovico Capuano , Luca Santoni , Enrico Barausse

In the presence of certain non-minimal couplings between a scalar field and the Gauss-Bonnet curvature invariant, Kerr black holes can scalarize, as long as they are spinning fast enough. This provides a distinctive violation of the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Lorenzo Annulli , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

It has recently been proved numerically that spinning black holes in Einstein-scalar theories which are characterized by a non-minimal negative coupling of the scalar field to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant of the curved spacetime may develop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-04 Shahar Hod

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

We perform an in-depth analysis of rotating scalarized black holes in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, where scalarization is induced by the spacetime curvature. Our results show that even for very large spins, the scalar charge can reach…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In a recent Letter we have shown that in shift-symmetric Horndeski theory the scalar field is forced to obtain a nontrivial configuration in black hole spacetimes, unless a linear coupling with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant is tuned away. As a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-12 Thomas P. Sotiriou , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We consider a scalar field coupled to the torsion in Teleparallel Gravity with a coupling function that does not allow for a tachyonic instability to occur, and it leads to the formation of new black holes with scalar hair. The scalarized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-06 P. A. González , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Joaquín Robledo , Yerko Vásquez

It has recently been proved that nontrivial couplings between scalar fields and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant of a curved spacetime may allow a central black hole to support spatially regular scalar hairy configurations. Interestingly, former…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Shahar Hod

In this paper, we follow up on the discovery of a new type of solution in the Einstein-Maxwell system coupled minimally to a self-interacting complex scalar field. For sufficiently large gravitational coupling and sufficiently small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

We study scalarization of slowly rotating black holes in the Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (GB)-Chern-Simons (CS) theory. In the slow rotation approximation of $a\ll1$ with rotation parameter $a$, the GB term is given by a term for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou

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

We develop a new technique for finding black hole solutions in modified gravity that have "stealth" hair, i.e., hair whose only gravitational effect is to tune the cosmological constant. We consider scalar-tensor theories in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-16 Christos Charmousis , Marco Crisostomi , Ruth Gregory , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The phenomenon of spontaneous scalarization of charged black holes has attracted a lot of attention. In this work, we study the dynamical process of the spontaneous scalarization of charged black hole in asymptotically anti-de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Wen-Kun Luo , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Bin Wang

In the present letter we show the existence of a fully nonlinear dynamical mechanism for the formation of scalarized black holes which is different from the spontaneous scalarization. We consider a class of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-05 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We investigate scalarized black holes in the Einstein-minimally coupled scalar theory with a negative potential $V(\phi)=-\alpha^2\phi^6$. The tachyonic instability is absent from analyzing the linearized scalar equation, which could not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Xiao Yan Chew , Yun Soo Myung

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