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A massive spin-2 field can grow unstably around a black hole, giving rise to a potential probe of the existence of such fields. In this work, we use time-domain evolutions to study such instabilities. Considering the linear regime by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 William E. East , Nils Siemonsen

We investigate time delays of wave scatterings around black hole backgrounds in scalar-tensor effective field theories of gravity. The scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (sGB) couplings, being corrections of the lowest orders, can give rise to hairy black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Wen-Kai Nie , Lin-Tao Tan , Jun Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

The spinning-hairy black holes that occur in Einstein gravity supplemented by a doublet of complex scalar fields are constructed within an extension of the model by a $U(1)$ gauge symmetry involving a massless vector potential. The hairy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 Y. Brihaye , L. Ducobu

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

We study the gravitational collapse and formation of the Kerr black hole from the rotating progenitor star. We follow the evolution of black hole spin, coupled with its increasing mass. We study the effect of different level of rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-08 Agnieszka Janiuk , Dominika Król

In this paper, we construct scalarized rotating black holes within the framework of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models. These models incorporate non-minimal couplings that can induce tachyonic instabilities, leading to the spontaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

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

Within the framework of scalar-tensor theories of gravity, certain models can evade classical black hole no-hair theorems. A well-known example is Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, where black holes carrying a scalar charge can exist.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Lodovico Capuano , Llibert Aresté Saló , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Enrico Barausse

Black holes represent outstanding astrophysical laboratories to test the strong gravity regime, since alternative theories of gravity may predict black hole solutions whose may differ distinctly from those of General Relativity. When higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-03 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

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

It has recently been shown that nontrivial couplings between a scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can give rise to black hole spontaneous scalarization. Theories that exhibit this phenomenon are among the leading candidates for testing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Caio F. B. Macedo , Jeremy Sakstein , Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Hector O. Silva , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Static black holes in general relativity modified by a linear scalar coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant always carry hair. We show that the same mechanism that creates the hair makes it incompatible with a cosmological horizon. Other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 Eugeny Babichev , Ignacy Sawicki , Leonardo G. Trombetta

The black hole scalarization in a special Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) gravity has been widely investigated in recent years. Especially, the spontaneous scalarization of scalar-free black hole in de-Sitter (dS) spacetime possesses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-07 Zhen-Hao Yang , Guoyang Fu , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

The saturation mechanism for the fastest-growing instability of massive scalar field in Kerr metric is identified, assuming saturation by cubic or quartic nonlinearities of the field potential. The resulting spindown rate of the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-22 Andrei Gruzinov

We study a complex Dirac field in the chiral representation minimally coupled to gravity in 3+1 dimensions in the context of Einstein-Cartan theory. Generically the matter content gravitates in two different ways: On the one hand, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Adolfo Toloza

Scalar-tensor theories with a scalar field coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can evade no-hair theorems and allow for non-trivial scalar profiles around black holes. This coupling is characterized by a length scale $\lambda$, which, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-24 Clemente Smarra , Lodovico Capuano , Adrien Kuntz

We investigate the orbital structure and observable appearance of rotating Kerr black holes endowed with synchronized scalar hair described by two time-periodic scalar fields with a flat target-space geometry. The presence of scalar hair…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Galin N. Gyulchev , Daniela D. Doneva , Valentin O. Deliyski , Petya G. Nedkova , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Nonrotating and rotating black hole soltuions in (2+1) dimensions are studied in a model including a real scalar field with a simple potential coupled to gravity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshitaka Degura , Kenji Sakamoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

In the present paper we consider multi-scalar extension of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We focus on multi-scalar Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet models whose target space is a three-dimensional maximally symmetric space, namely either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 Daniela D. Doneva , Kalin V. Staykov , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Radostina Z. Zheleva

We study spherical collapse of a scalar cloud in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity - a theory in which black holes can develop scalar hair if they are in a certain mass range. We show that an additional quadratic coupling of the scalar field to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-05 Farid Thaalba , Miguel Bezares , Nicola Franchini , Thomas P. Sotiriou