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We numerically construct asymptotically extremal black holes through the nonlinear evolution of a charged scalar field. Our procedure -- which extends the work of Murata-Reall-Tanahashi to include charged scalar dynamics -- involves the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Zachary Gelles , Frans Pretorius

The fundamental role played by black holes in many areas of physics makes it highly important to explore the nature of their stability. The stability of charged Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes to {\it neutral} (gravitational and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Shahar Hod

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

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

Recent numerical relativity simulations within the Einstein--Maxwell--(charged-)Klein-Gordon (EMcKG) system have shown that the non-linear evolution of a superradiantly unstable Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole (BH) enclosed in a cavity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-26 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

We consider Einstein gravity in general dimensions, coupled to a scalar field either minimally or non-minimally, together with a generic scalar potential. By making appropriate choices of the scalar potential, we obtain large classes of new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-16 Zhong-Ying Fan , H. Lu

Recent results show that when non-linear electrodynamics is considered the no-scalar-hair theorems in the scalar-tensor theories (STT) of gravity, which are valid for the cases of neutral black holes and charged black holes in the Maxwell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-25 Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Michail D. Todorov

Superradiance, the phenomenon enabling energy extraction through radiation amplification, is not universal to all black holes. We show that semi-classical backreaction can induce superradiance, even when absent at the classical level.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-30 Casey Cartwright , Umut Gürsoy , Juan F. Pedraza , Andrew Svesko

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

We study the nonlinear dynamics of black holes that carry scalar hair and binaries composed of such black holes. The scalar hair is due to a linear or exponential coupling between the scalar and the Gauss--Bonnet invariant. We work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Helvi Witek , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani , Thomas P. Sotiriou

There is increasing numerical evidence that scalar fields can form long-lived quasi-bound states around black holes. Recent perturbative and numerical relativity calculations have provided further confirmation in a variety of physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-19 Alejandro Escorihuela-Tomàs , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

Under some conditions, light boson fields grow exponentially around a rotating black hole, called the superradiance instability. We discuss effects of nonlinear interactions of the boson on the instability. In particular, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Hajime Fukuda , Kazunori Nakayama

Black hole superradiance, which only relies on gravitational interactions, can provide a powerful probe of the existence of ultralight bosons that are weakly coupled to ordinary matter. However, as a boson cloud grows through superradiance,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-04 William E. East

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

Violent cosmic events, from black hole mergers to stellar collapses, often leave behind highly excited black hole remnants that inevitably relax to equilibrium. The prevailing view, developed over decades, holds that this relaxation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 Cheng-Yong Zhang , Yunqi Liu , Bin Wang

We study time evolutions of charged scalar perturbations on the background of a charged hairy black hole, in which the perturbations can be governed by a double-peak effective potential. By extracting quasinormal modes from the waveform of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

During the last two decades solutions of black holes with various types of "hair" have been discovered. Remarkably, it has been established that many of these hairy black holes are unstable-- under small perturbations the hair may collapse.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-31 Shahar Hod

A co-rotating bosonic field interacting with a spinning Kerr black hole can extract rotational energy and angular momentum from the hole. This intriguing phenomenon is known as superradiant scattering. As pointed out by Press and Teukolsky,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Shahar Hod

We construct asymptotically flat black hole solutions of Einstein-scalar gravity sourced by a nontrivial scalar field with 1/r asymptotic behaviour. Near the singularity the black hole behaves as the Janis-Newmann-Winicour-Wyman solution.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-08 Mariano Cadoni , Edgardo Franzin

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