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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

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

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

For an asymptotically flat hairy black hole in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar (EMS) theory, we study the possibility of shedding off its scalar hair via nonlinear scalar perturbation fully interacting with the background spacetime. We examine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-27 Chao Niu , Wei Xiong , Peng Liu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Bin Wang

We show that Schwarzschild black hole binaries can undergo dynamical scalarization (DS) in the inspiral phase, in a subclass of $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (ESGB) theories of gravity. The mechanism is analogous to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 Félix-Louis Julié

In this paper, we study the dynamics of scalar hair around a Schwarzchild black hole. The scalar hair is sourced by the Gauss-Bonnet invariant with a linear coupling. We work perturbatively in the coupling constant and ignore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-02 Yu-Peng Zhang , Yong-Qiang Wang , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

In classical general relativity astrophysical black holes can be affected by the superradiant instability when gravity is minimally coupled to a light bosonic field. The majority of phenomenological studies have focused on the idealized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-14 Giuseppe Ficarra

A scalar field non-minimally coupled to certain geometric [or matter] invariants which are sourced by [electro]vacuum black holes (BHs) may spontaneously grow around the latter, due to a tachyonic instability. This process is expected to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Yves Brihaye , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

In a certain class of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, the black holes and the neutron stars can undergo spontaneous scalarization -- a strong gravity phase transition triggered by a tachyonic instability due to the nonminimal coupling between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 Hao-Jui Kuan , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We study hairy black hole solutions in Einstein(--Maxwell)--scalar--Gauss--Bonnet theory. The scalar coupling function includes quadratic and quartic terms, so the gravitational action has a U(1) symmetry. We argued that when the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-11 Boris Latosh , Miok Park

We study the axial quasinormal modes of hairy black holes in Gauss-Bonnet gravity with massive self-interacting scalar field. Two coupling functions of the scalar field to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant are adopted with one of them leading to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-03 Kalin V. Staykov , Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Daniela D. Doneva , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

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

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

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

A numerical solution scheme for the Einstein field equations based on generalized harmonic coordinates is described, focusing on details not provided before in the literature and that are of particular relevance to the binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Frans Pretorius

We investigate whether a black hole(BH) surrounded by a dark matter (DM) halo has scalar hair/superradiant instability in the scalar tensor theory of gravity. In the scalar tensor theory, the coupling of matter and the scalar field creates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Junya Tanaka

We holographically investigate the scalarization in the Einstein-Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a negative cosmological constant. We find that instability exists for both Schwarzschild-AdS and Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS black holes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-21 Hong Guo , Stella Kiorpelidi , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Bin Wang , Jian-Pin Wu

We propose a new model of black hole spontaneous scalarization that combines a scalar--Gauss--Bonnet interaction with a non--minimal coupling to a U(1) gauge field (a dark photon or an electromagnetic field). This construction generalizes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Zakaria Belkhadria , Salvatore Mignemi

Spontaneous scalarization of black holes typically occurs through the condensation of a scalar field, with the field evolving from a $U(1)$-symmetric phase into a symmetry-breaking one with lower energy. We show that there exist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Xinmiao Wang

Scalar fields of masses between $10^{-21}\rm{eV}/c^2$ and $10^{-11} \rm{eV}/c^2$ can exhibit enhanced gravitational interactions with black holes, and form scalar clouds around them. Such a cloud modifies the dynamics of a coalescing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Cheng-Hsin Cheng , Giuseppe Ficarra , Helvi Witek