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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

We investigate the tachyonic instability of Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole with a rotation parameter $a$ in the Einstein-Chern-Simons-scalar theory coupled with a quadratic massive scalar field. This instability analysis corresponds to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-03 Kun-Hui Fan , Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou , Meng-Yun Lai

Solutions pertaining to a Kerr black hole with a flat horizon undergoing gradual rotation are explored in the context of gravitational theories modified by dynamical Chern-Simons terms with cylindrical metrics, which approach asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-16 G. G. L. Nashed , Kazuharu Bamba

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

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

One of the most crucial areas of gravity research, after the direct observation of gravitational waves, is the possible modification of General Relativity at ultraviolet and infrared scales. In particular, the possibility of parity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 G. G. L. Nashed , S. Capozziello

We study the dynamical Chern-Simons gravity as an effective quantum field theory, and discuss a broad range of its parameter space where the theory is valid. Within that validity range, we show that slowly rotating black holes acquire novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Stephon Alexander , Gregory Gabadadze , Leah Jenks , Nicolás Yunes

It is interesting to note that most black holes are born very slowly rotating. We investigate scalarization of slowly rotating black holes in the Einstein-scalar-Chern-Simons (EsCS) theory. In the slow rotation approximation, the CS term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou

The low-energy limit of string theory contains an anomaly-canceling correction to the Einstein-Hilbert action, which defines an effective theory: Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity. The CS correction consists of the product of a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius

No Kerr-like exact solution has yet been found in Chern-Simons modified gravity. Intrigued by this absence, we study stationary and axisymmetric metrics that could represent the exterior field of spinning black holes. For the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Grumiller , Nicolas Yunes

It was recently shown that a scalar field suitably coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant $\mathcal{G}$ can undergo a spin-induced linear tachyonic instability near a Kerr black hole. This instability appears only once the dimensionless spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-11 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Hector O. Silva , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Nicolás Yunes

We present a well-posed constraint-preserving scheme for evolving first-order metric perturbations on an arbitrary background with arbitrary source. We use this scheme to evolve the leading-order metric perturbation in order-reduced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Maria Okounkova , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

Chern-Simons gravity rotating Kerr-type black hole solutions are revisited from the point of view of their scalarization, namely examining the back reaction of pseudoscalar axion fields on the rotating geometry. To lowest order in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Nikos Chatzifotis , Panos Dorlis , Nick E. Mavromatos , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

The chiral scalar-tensor theory is an extension of the Chern-Simons modified gravity by introducing couplings between the first and second derivatives of the scalar field and parity-violating spacetime curvatures. A key feature of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Ze-Kai Yu , Lei Liu , Tao Zhu

The tachyonic instability of the Kerr black holes is analyzed in the Einstein-scalar theory with the quadratic scalar couplings to two topological terms which are parity-even Gauss-Bonnet and parity-odd Chern-Simons terms. For positive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-28 De-Cheng Zou , Yun Soo Myung

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity is an extension of General Relativity in which the gravitational field is coupled to a scalar field through a parity-violating Chern-Simons term. In this framework, we study perturbations of spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-04 C. Molina , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri

As it became well known in the past years, Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) theories evade no-hair theorems and allow for scalarized compact objects including black holes (BH). The coupling function that defines the theory is the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Daniela D. Doneva , Lucas G. Collodel , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

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

We discuss spontaneous scalarization of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in the presence of higher derivative gauge field corrections that arise in the context of string, as well as higher-dimensional more fundamental gravity theories.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Stella Kiorpelidi , Thanasis Karakasis , George Koutsoumbas , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

We perform the stability analysis of the Kerr black hole in the Einstein-Chern-Simons-Scalar theory with quadratic scalar coupling. For positive coupling parameter ($\alpha>0$), we introduce the (2+1)-dimensional hyperboloidal foliation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou