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In this paper, we discuss a fully nonlinear mechanism for the formation of scalarized rotating black holes in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, where Kerr black holes are linearly stable, but unstable against nonlinear scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-09 Meng-Yun Lai , De-Cheng Zou , Rui-Hong Yue , Yun Soo Myung

Massive scalar charges are ubiquitous in extensions to General Relativity and the Standard Model in particle physics. We describe spectral methods which can accurately construct the spacetime of rotating black holes with dimensionless spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung

We investigate a slowly rotating black hole in four-dimensional extended Chern-Simons modified gravity. We obtain an approximate solution that reduces to the Kerr solution when a coupling constant vanishes. The Chern-Simons correction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-19 Kohkichi Konno , Toyoki Matsuyama , Satoshi Tanda

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity has an interesting feature that the parity violating term exists, and the coupling is determined by a dynamical scalar field. When the spacetime has spherical symmetry, the parity violating term vanishes, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Masashi Kimura

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 Chern-Simons (CS) gravity is a modified theory of Einstein's general relativity (GR). The CS theory arises from the low energy limit of string theory which involves anomaly correction to the Einstein-Hilbert action. The CS term is given…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-12 G. G. L. Nashed , Shin'ichi Nojiri

Using gravitational wave observations to search for deviations from general relativity in the strong-gravity regime has become an important research direction. Chern Simons (CS) gravity is one of the most frequently studied parity-violating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Manu Srivastava , Yanbei Chen , S. Shankaranarayanan

In this paper, we discuss the spontaneous scalarization of Hayward black holes in Einstein-nonlinear electromagnetic-scalar gravity. Taking into account the tachyonic instability, we obtain scalarized charged black holes (SCBHs) with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-22 Lan-Lan Cai , Meng-Yun Lai , De-Cheng Zou , Lina Zhang , Hyat Huang

We present a new technique for time-domain numerical evolution of the scalar field generated by a pointlike scalar charge orbiting a black hole. Time-domain evolution offers an efficient way for calculating black hole perturbations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Leor Barack , Darren A Golbourn

We investigate the spin-charge-induced scalarization of Kerr--Newman (KN) black holes in the Einstein--Maxwell-scalar (EMS) theory with a scalar potential and positive coupling parameter. In the linearized theory, there exists a bound of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Xiang Luo , Meng-Yun Lai , Yun Soo Myung , Yi-Bin Huang , De-Cheng Zou

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

It has recently been demonstrated that Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes in composed Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field theories can support static scalar field configurations with a non-minimal negative coupling to the Maxwell electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-14 Shahar Hod

We investigate the dynamics of black hole critical collapse in the limit of a large number of spacetime dimensions, $D$. In particular, we study the spherical gravitational collapse of a massless, scale-invariant scalar field with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Craig R. Clark , Guilherme L. Pimentel

In general relativity, astrophysical black holes are simple objects, being described by just their mass and spin. These simple solutions are not exclusive to general relativity, as they also appear in theories that allow for an extra scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-02 Caio F. B. Macedo

In the present paper we consider the extended scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a massive scalar field. We prove numerically the existence of Gauss-Bonnet black holes for three different forms of the coupling function including the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-29 Daniela D. Doneva , Kalin V. Staykov , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We perform the stability analysis of the Schwarzschild black hole in $f(R)$ gravity with the parity-violating Chern-Simons (CS) term coupled to a dynamical scalar field $\theta$. For this purpose, we transform the $f(R)$ gravity into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Taeyoon Moon , Yun Soo Myung

The five dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a negative cosmological constant becomes, for a special value of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant, a Chern-Simons (CS) theory of gravity. In this work we discuss the properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Yves Brihaye , Eugen Radu

Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity is an extension to general relativity (GR) in which the metric is coupled to a scalar field, resulting in modified Einstein field equations. In the dynamical theory, the scalar field is itself sourced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-16 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Yanbei Chen

The Chern-Simons amended gravity theory appears as a low-energy effective theory of string theory. The effective theory includes an anomaly-cancelation correction to the Einstein-Hilbert action. The Chern-Simons expression consists of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 G. G. L. Nashed , Shin'ichi Nojiri

We study the fully nonlinear dynamics of black hole spontaneous scalarizations in Einstein-Maxwell scalar theory with coupling function $f(\phi)=e^{-b\phi^{2}}$, which can transform usual Reissner-Nordstr\"om Anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Cheng-Yong Zhang , Peng Liu , Yunqi Liu , Chao Niu , Bin Wang