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We present a very detailed derivation of solutions describing hairy black holes within the gravity-coupled Weinberg-Salam theory, which were previously reported in \href{https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.171402}{Phys.Rev.Lett. 133…

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In a subclass of generalized Proca theories where a cubic vector Galileon term breaks the $U(1)$ gauge invariance, it is known that there are static and spherically symmetric black hole (BH) solutions endowed with nonvanishing temporal and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-25 Antonio De Felice , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa

We review nonsingular static, spherically symmetric solutions of general relativity with a minimally coupled scalar field $\phi$ as a source. Considered are wormholes and regular black holes without a center, including black universes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-16 Kirill A. Bronnikov

We investigate the superhorizon behavior of scalar hair sourced by black holes in de Sitter spacetime in the linearly coupled shift-symmetric scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory. Working in the test-field regime, we show that this hair exhibits both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Dražen Glavan , Darío Jaramillo-Garrido

A class of vector-tensor theories arises naturally in the framework of quadratic gravity in spacetimes with linear vector distortion. Requiring the absence of ghosts for the vector field imposes an interesting condition on the allowed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi S. Koivisto

Static black holes in two-dimensional string theory can carry tachyon hair. Configurations which are non-singular at the event horizon have non-vanishing asymptotic energy density. Such solutions can be smoothly extended through the event…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 A. Peet , L. Susskind , L. Thorlacius

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

We study linear perturbations about static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions with stealth scalar hair in degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories. We clarify master variables and derive the quadratic Lagrangian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Kazufumi Takahashi , Hayato Motohashi

If TeV-scale gravity describes nature, black holes will be produced in particle accelerators, perhaps even with impressive rates at the Large Hadron Collider. Their decays, largely via the Hawking process, will be spectacular. Black holes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Steven B. Giddings

In full Horndeski theories, we show that the static and spherically symmetric black hole (BH) solutions with a static scalar field~$\phi$ whose kinetic term~$X$ is nonvanishing on the BH horizon are generically prone to ghost/Laplacian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-03 Masato Minamitsuji , Kazufumi Takahashi , Shinji Tsujikawa

In theories with moduli, extremal black holes behave such that for generic initial conditions, the distance traveled by the scalars from infinity to the horizon can grow with the size of the black hole. This, in turn, implies that larger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Matilda Delgado , Sébastien Reymond , Thomas Van Riet

We present a family of solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to a complex, massive scalar field, describing asymptotically flat, spinning black holes with scalar hair and a regular horizon. These hairy black holes (HBHs) are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

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

In this paper we construct new hairy black holes of Lovelock-Born-Infeld-Scalar gravity in diverse dimensions. We study horizon structures of the black holes and find the black holes may possess three horizons, two horizons or one horizon.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-02 Kun Meng

The exactly solvable scalar hairy black hole model (originated from the modern high-energy theory) is proposed. It turns out that the existence of black holes (BH) is strongly correlated to global scalar field, in a sense that they mutually…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

A numerical analysis shows that a class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity with a scalar field minimally and nonminimally coupled to the curvature allows static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions with scalar-field hair in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ulises Nucamendi , Marcelo Salgado

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 linear perturbations about static and spherically symmetric black holes with a time-independent background scalar field in shift-symmetric Horndeski theories, whose Lagrangian is characterized by coupling functions depending only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-03 Masato Minamitsuji , Kazufumi Takahashi , Shinji Tsujikawa

We propose an alternative theory of gravity which assumes that background geometry of the Universe is fixed four dimensional Euclidean space and gravity is a vector field $A_k$ in this space which breaks the Euclidean symmetry. Direction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-21 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

We analyze spherical and odd-parity linear perturbations of hairy black holes with a minimally coupled scalar field.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-04 Andres Anabalon , Jiří Bičák