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We revisit the charged black hole bomb by numerically solving the fully non-linear Einstein-Maxwell-(charged, complex) Klein-Gordon system with a moving mirror. By dynamically varying the cavity size, we find that the system evolves toward…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Alejandro Belchí , Carlos Herdeiro , José A. Font

Scalar fields coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can undergo a tachyonic instability, leading to spontaneous scalarization of black holes. Studies of this effect have so far been restricted to single black hole spacetimes. We present the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-16 Hector O. Silva , Helvi Witek , Matthew Elley , Nicolás Yunes

Can a black hole that suffers a superradiant instability evolve towards a 'hairy' configuration which is stable? We address this question in the context of Einstein-charged scalar field theory. First, we describe a family of static black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-24 Sam R Dolan , Supakchai Ponglertsakul , Elizabeth Winstanley

Black holes immersed in magnetic fields are believed to be important systems in astrophysics. One interesting topic on these systems is their superradiant stability property. In the present paper, we analytically obtain the superradiantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Yi-Feng Zou , Jun-Huai Xu , Zhan-Feng Mai , Jia-Hui Huang

Spacetimes with an ergoregion that is not connected to a horizon are linearly unstable. While the linear regime has been studied in a number of settings, little is known about the nonlinear evolution of this ergoregion instability. Here, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

As the electron in the hydrogen atom, a bosonic field can bind itself to a black hole occupying a discrete infinite set of states. When (i) the spacetime is prone to superradiance and (ii) a confinement mechanism is present, some of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-19 Nuno M. Santos , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

We construct hairy black hole solutions that merge with the anti-de Sitter (AdS$_4$) Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole at the onset of superradiance. These hairy black holes have, for a given mass and charge, higher entropy than the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-02 Oscar J. C. Dias , Ramon Masachs

We construct a new one-parameter family indexed by $\epsilon$ of two-ended, spatially-homogeneous black hole interiors solving the Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations with a (possibly zero) cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-27 Maxime Van de Moortel

We study dynamic processes through which the scalar hair of black holes is generated or detached in a theory with a scalar field non-minimally coupled to Gauss-Bonnet and Ricci scalar invariants. We concentrate on the nonlinear temporal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Yunqi Liu , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Wei-Liang Qian , Kai Lin , Bin Wang

We investigate the interplaying effects of black hole scalarization and superradiance in the context of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar model, with the scalar field possessing electric charge. Restricted to spherical symmetry, our linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-18 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Xinmiao Wang

We use a numerical code to consider the nonlinear processes arising when a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole is irradiated by an exotic scalar field (modelled as a free massless scalar field with an opposite sign for its energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Andrey Doroshkevich , Jakob Hansen , Dmitriy Novikov , Igor Novikov , Dong-Ho Park , Alexander Shatskiy

In this paper, we study the dynamics of scalar hair around a Schwarzchild black hole. The scalar hair is sourced by the Gauss-Bonnet invariant with a linear coupling. We work perturbatively in the coupling constant and ignore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-02 Yu-Peng Zhang , Yong-Qiang Wang , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study scalar fields in a black hole background and show that, when the scalar is suitably coupled to curvature, rapid rotation can induce a tachyonic instability. This instability, which is the hallmark of spontaneous scalarization in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-07 Alexandru Dima , Enrico Barausse , Nicola Franchini , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Black holes possess trapping regions which lead to intriguing dynamical effects. By properly scattering test fields off a black hole, one can extract energy from it, leading to the growth of the amplitude of the test field in expense of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-30 Kyriakos Destounis

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

A linear coupling between a scalar field and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant is the only known interaction term between a scalar and the metric that: respects shift symmetry; does not lead to higher order equations; inevitably introduces black…

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

A bosonic field impinging on a rotating black hole can be amplified as it scatters off the hole, a phenomena known as superradiant scattering. If in addition the field has a non-zero rest mass then the mass term effectively works as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-07 Shahar Hod , Oded Hod

By using the Taylor series method and the solution-generating method, we construct exact black hole solutions with minimally coupled scalar field. We find that the black hole solutions can have many hairs except for the physical mass. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Changjun Gao , Jianhui Qiu

We study charged scalar perturbations of charged extremal black holes in Einstein-Born-Infeld theory. Our numerical results indicate that these black holes all suffer from superradiant instability by the unstable quasi-bound states,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-05 Ze-Hua Wu , H. Lu

The black hole superradiance phenomena state that when a scalar wave perturbation is properly scattering off a charged or rotating black hole, the energy of the reflected scalar wave may be amplified. If this amplification process can occur…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Jia-Hui Huang , Mu-Zi Zhang , Tian-Tian Cao , Yi-Feng Zou , Zhan-Feng Mai