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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

Scalarized black holes (BH) have been shown to form dynamically in extended-scalar-tensor theories, either through spontaneous scalarization -- when the BH is unstable against linear perturbations -- or through a non-linear scalarization.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Zakaria Belkhadria , Alexandre M. Pombo

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 revisit scalarized black holes in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and analyze the thermodynamic phase transition between the Schwarzschild solution of general relativity and scalarized black holes. Restricting to spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Carlos Herdeiro , Hyat Huang , Jutta Kunz , Meng-Yun Lai , Eugen Radu , De-Cheng Zou

Gravitational memory provides a distinctive low-frequency probe of gravity, but explicit merger studies beyond general relativity remain limited. In this work, we investigate memory from binary black hole mergers in Ricci-coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Jann Zosso , Silvia Gasparotto , Llibert Aresté Saló , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Black hole spontaneous scalarization has been attracting more and more attention as it circumvents the well-known no-hair theorems. In this work, we study the scalarization in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory with a probe scalar field in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Hong Guo , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Bin Wang

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 perform an in-depth analysis of rotating scalarized black holes in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, where scalarization is induced by the spacetime curvature. Our results show that even for very large spins, the scalar charge can reach…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

In the present paper we consider multi-scalar extension of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We focus on multi-scalar Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet models whose target space is a three-dimensional maximally symmetric space, namely either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 Daniela D. Doneva , Kalin V. Staykov , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Radostina Z. Zheleva

Under the assumption that a dynamical scalar field is responsible for the current acceleration of the Universe, we explore the possibility of probing its physics in black hole merger processes with gravitational wave interferometers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-08 Johannes Noller , Luca Santoni , Enrico Trincherini , Leonardo G. Trombetta

We study the dynamics of spherically symmetric black holes in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity with an additional coupling between the scalar field and the Ricci scalar using non-linear simulations that employ excision. In this class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-18 Farid Thaalba , Nicola Franchini , Miguel Bezares , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We present the first fully nonlinear study on the accretion of scalar fields onto a seed black hole in anti-de Sitter spacetime in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory. Intrinsic critical phenomena in the dynamical transition between the bald and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Cheng-Yong Zhang , Qian Chen , Yunqi Liu , Wen-Kun Luo , 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

The phenomenon of spontaneous scalarization of charged black holes has attracted a lot of attention. In this work, we study the dynamical process of the spontaneous scalarization of charged black hole in asymptotically anti-de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Wen-Kun Luo , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Bin Wang

Scalar fields coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant evade the known no-hair theorems and have nontrivial configurations around black holes. We focus on a scalar field that couples linearly to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant and hence exhibits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 Robert Benkel , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Helvi Witek

We investigate time delays of wave scatterings around black hole backgrounds in scalar-tensor effective field theories of gravity. The scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (sGB) couplings, being corrections of the lowest orders, can give rise to hairy black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Wen-Kai Nie , Lin-Tao Tan , Jun Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

Static black holes in general relativity modified by a linear scalar coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant always carry hair. We show that the same mechanism that creates the hair makes it incompatible with a cosmological horizon. Other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 Eugeny Babichev , Ignacy Sawicki , Leonardo G. Trombetta

The no-hair theorem postulates that the only externally observable properties of a black hole are its mass, its electric charge, and its angular momentum. In scalar-tensor theories of gravity, a matter distribution around a black hole can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-14 Tomi Koivisto , Hannu J. Nyrhinen

We study the perturbative behaviour of topological black holes in the presence of a cosmological constant and a scalar field coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet term. We calculate both analytically and numerically the quasi-normal modes of scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Stella Kiorpelidi , George Koutsoumbas , Andri Machattou , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

The recently proposed formalism of extended Jordan-Brans-Dicke gravity makes it possible to calculate energy loss rate due to both gravitational wave and scalar field (giving the origin of dark energy) wave emission at merger of a black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Kunio Kaneta , Kin-ya Oda , Motohiko Yoshimura