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We search for a possible relation between weak gravity conjecture and conformal field theory in the hyperscaling violating and Kerr-Newman-AdS black holes. We deal with the critical points of the black hole systems through the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Jafar Sadeghi , Mehdi Shokri , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti

We search for stable bound states of non-extremal rotating three-charge black holes in five dimensions (Cvetic-Youm black holes) and supertubes. We do this by studying the potential of supertube probes in the non-extremal black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Borun D. Chowdhury , Bert Vercnocke

While the standard point of view is that the ultimate endpoint of black hole evolution is determined by Hawking evaporation, there is a growing evidence that classical and semi-classical instabilities affect both black holes with inner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Francesco Di Filippo , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser

We consider the gravitational collapse of a dust cloud in an asymptotically anti de Sitter spacetime in which points connected by a discrete subgroup of an isometry subgroup of anti de Sitter spacetime are identified. We find that black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. L. Smith , R. B. Mann

We consider the perturbation of tachyon about the extremal ground state of a two-dimensional (2D) electrically charged black hole. It is found that the presenting potential to on-coming tachyonic wave takes a double-humped barrier well.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. S. Myung , Jin Young Kim

We uncover two mechanisms that can render Kerr black holes unstable in scalar-tensor gravity, both associated to the presence of matter in the vicinity of the black hole and the fact that this introduces an effective mass for the scalar.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Vitor Cardoso , Isabella P. Carucci , Paolo Pani , Thomas P. Sotiriou

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) posits that gravity must be the weakest force in any consistent theory of quantum gravity. Originally formulated to constrain the landscape of effective field theories arising from string theory, the WGC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Gayatri Ghosh

We show that a generic relativistic membrane with in-plane pressure and surface density having the same sign is unstable with respect to a series of warping mode instabilities with high wave numbers. We also examine the criteria of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Huan Yang , Beatrice Bonga , Zhen Pan

We obtain the $\epsilon<2$ new extremal ground states of a two-dimensional (2D) charged black hole where $\epsilon$ is the dilaton coupling parameter for the Maxwell term. The stability analysis is carried out for all these extremal black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. W. Lee , Y. S. Myung , Jin Young Kim

This study investigates the nonlinear charged Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole solution within the framework of massive gravity, motivated by recent advancements linking the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to phenomena such as Weak Cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Behnam Pourhassan , Jafar Sadeghi

We show that rapidly-spinning black holes can display turbulent gravitational behavior which is mediated by a new type of parametric instability. This instability transfers energy from higher temporal and azimuthal spatial frequencies to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Huan Yang , Aaron Zimmerman , Luis Lehner

Recently, various authors have proposed that the first ultraviolet effect on the gravitational collapse of massive stars to black holes is the transition between a black-hole geometry and a white-hole geometry, though their proposals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-28 Carlos Barceló , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay

Stationary black hole geometries with non-degenerate Cauchy horizons are classically unstable due to mass inflation. At extremality, mass inflation is absent, but a different dynamical instability arises: the Aretakis instability. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 Shreyansh Agrawal , Panagiotis Charalambous , Laura Donnay , Stefano Liberati , Giulio Neri

Using black-hole inequalities and the increase of the horizon's areas, we show that there are arbitrarily small electro-vacuum perturbations of the standard initial data of the extreme Reissner-Nordstrom black-hole that, (by contradiction),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Martin Reiris

Given a characteristic initial value problem with smooth data representing a dynamical event horizon settling down to that of Kerr in the subextremal, strictly rotating range with suitable upper and lower bounds, we prove that a weak null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Jonathan Luk , Jan Sbierski

We demonstrate that black holes and stars in general relativity can be destabilized by perturbations of non-minimally coupled vector fields. Focusing on static and spherically symmetric backgrounds, our analysis shows that black holes with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Aaron Held , Jun Zhang

Regular black holes are generically unstable because of the classical phenomenon that goes by the name of "mass inflation" which destabilizes the inner horizon. In a recent article, [Phys.Rev.D~107~(2023)~2,~024005], it is argued that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Francesco Di Filippo , Stefano Liberati , Costantino Pacilio , Matt Visser

Dark matter overdensities around black holes can be searched for by looking at the characteristic imprint they leave on the gravitational waveform of binary black hole mergers. Current theoretical predictions of the density profile of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Gianfranco Bertone , A. Renske A. C. Wierda , Daniele Gaggero , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Marta Volonteri , Naoki Yoshida

Aretakis has proved the existence of an instability of a massless scalar field at the horizon of an extreme Kerr or Reissner-Nordstrom black hole: for generic initial data, a transverse derivative of the scalar field at the horizon does not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-16 James Lucietti , Harvey S. Reall

The possibility that dark matter particles could be constituted by extreme regular primordial black holes is discussed. Extreme black holes have zero surface temperature, and are not subjected to the Hawking evaporation process. Assuming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-14 José Antonio de Freitas Pacheco