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For gauged scalar fields minimally coupled to Einstein-Maxwell theory, the Mayo-Bekenstein no-hair theorem can be circumvented when including appropriate scalar self-interactions, allowing static, electrically charged black holes to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-18 Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Yakov Shnir

We study static, spherically symmetric and electrically charged black hole solutions in a quadratic Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity model. Very similar to the uncharged case, black holes undergo spontaneous scalarization for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

Charge-dependent scalarization of the Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg (EEH) black hole is carried out in the EEH-scalar theory by introducing an exponential scalar coupling with $\alpha$ coupling constant to the Maxwell and nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Lina Zhang , Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou , Chao-Ming Zhang

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 consider charged black holes with scalar hair obtained in a class of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models, where the scalar field is coupled to the Maxwell invariant with a quartic coupling function. Besides the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-04 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Sarah Kahlen , Jutta Kunz

We study the dynamics of black holes in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theories that exhibit spontaneous black hole scalarization using recently introduced methods for solving the full, non-perturbative equations of motion. For one sign of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 William E. East , Justin L. Ripley

We study the process of fully nonlinear dynamical scalarization starting from a charged black hole or a naked singularity in asymptotically flat spacetime in the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory. Initially the dilaton field is negligible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-09 Cheng-Yong Zhang , Peng Liu , Yunqi Liu , Chao Niu , Bin Wang

We perform the stability analysis on scalarized charged black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar (EMS) theory by computing quasinormal mode spectrum. It is noted that the appearance of these black holes with scalar hair is closely related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-06 Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou

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

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

In the presence of appropriate non-minimal couplings between a scalar field and the curvature squared Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term, compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes (BHs) can spontaneously scalarize, becoming a preferred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-26 Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , D. H. Tchrakian

It has been shown recently that the charged black hole can be scalarized if Maxwell field minimally couples with a complex scalar which has nonnegative nonlinear potential. We firstly prove that such scalarization cannot be a result of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-02 Zhan-Feng Mai , Run-Qiu Yang

Spontaneous scalarization in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory admits both vacuum-general relativity (GR) and scalarized hairy black holes as valid solutions, which provides a distinctive signature of new physics in strong gravity regime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-05 Xi-Jing Wang , Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Kai Liao

We consider a gravitating system consisting of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity with a self-interacting potential and an U(1) electromagnetic field. Solving the coupled Einstein-Maxwell-scalar system we find exact hairy charged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 P. A. Gonzalez , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Joel Saavedra , Yerko Vasquez

We identify a class of scalar-tensor theories with coupling between the scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant that exhibit spontaneous scalarization for both black holes and compact stars. In particular, these theories formally admit all of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Hector O. Silva , Jeremy Sakstein , Leonardo Gualtieri , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Emanuele Berti

We investigate the interplaying effects of black hole scalarization and superradiance in the context of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar model, with the scalar field possessing electric charge. Restricted to spherical symmetry, our linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-18 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Xinmiao Wang

In the framework of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory, we studied scalar field perturbations of Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m-Melvin (RNM) black holes, which describes the RN black holes immersed in a uniform magnetic field. Due to the coupling to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-13 Hengyu Xu , Shao-Jun Zhang

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

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 study 4-dimensional charged and static black holes in a generalized scalar-tensor gravity model, in which a shift symmetry for the scalar field exists. For vanishing scalar field the solution corresponds to the Reissner-Nordstr\"om (RN)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann