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The evolution of the event horizon when two black holes merge can be determined by resorting to ray-tracing techniques on a single black hole spacetime, under the assumption that the binary's mass ratio is infinite and the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Antonia M. Frassino , David C. Lopes , Jorge V. Rocha

Black hole superradiance is a powerful probe of light, weakly-coupled hidden sector particles. Many candidate particles, such as axions, generically have self-interactions that can influence the evolution of the superradiant instability. As…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-26 Masha Baryakhtar , Marios Galanis , Robert Lasenby , Olivier Simon

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

Complex scalar fields described by a novel Klein-Gordon equation derived from gauge and group theories are considered at the Schwarzschild's black hole singularities. It is shown that the field is well-behaved in the vicinity of these…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Z. E. Musielak , J. L. Fry , G. W. Kanan

The non-existence of asymptotically flat, neutral black holes and asymptotically flat, charged black holes in the Maxwell electrodynamics, with non-trivial scalar field has been proved for a large class of scalar-tensor theories. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Michail D. Todorov

We studied the superradiance effect of a charge black hole immersed in an expanding Universe. We considered a test massive charged scalar field scattered off the horizon of the charge McVittie black hole. We carried out a detailed analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-06 Stella Kiorpelidi , Konstantinos Ntrekis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

In the context of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with a nonminimal coupling between the electromagnetic and scalar field, we study linear (non)radial perturbations and nonlinear radial dynamics of spherically symmetric black holes. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Marco Melis , Fabrizio Corelli , Robin Croft , Paolo Pani

Superradiance is a radiation enhancement process that involves dissipative systems. With a 60 year-old history, superradiance has played a prominent role in optics, quantum mechanics and especially in relativity and astrophysics. In General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-11 Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Paolo Pani

Recent research has revealed a novel nonlinear mechanism, distinct from the linear superradiant instability, which triggers the black hole bomb phenomenon. Introducing a massive complex scalar field with nonlinear self-interactions drives…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Lang Zhao , Lin Chen , Cheng-Yong Zhang

We discuss a phase transition of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole to a hairy black hole in asymptotically flat spacetime. The hair is due to a massive charged scalar field. The no-hair theorem is evaded thanks to a derivative coupling of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Theodoros Kolyvaris , George Koutsoumbas , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , George Siopsis

We study analytically the initial value problem for a charged massless scalar-field on a Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime. Using the technique of spectral decomposition we extend recent results on this problem. Following the no-hair theorem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Shahar Hod , Tsvi Piran

We explore charged black hole solutions in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in five dimensions, with a charged scalar hair. We interpret such hairy black holes as the final state of the superradiant instability previously reported for this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Nicolas Grandi , Ignacio Salazar Landea

In rotating black hole background surrounded by dark matter, we investigated the super-radiant phenomenon of massive scalar field and its associated instability.Using the method of asymptotic matching, we computed the amplification factor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Quan-Xu Liu , Ya-Peng Hu , Tao-Tao Sui , Yu-Sen An

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

Recently, spontaneous scalarization of charged black holes has attracted a great deal of attention and motivated several studies of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models. These studies have, however, only considered a massless and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-09 Pedro G. S. Fernandes

Superradiance is a process by which massive bosonic particles can extract energy from spinning black holes, leading to the build up of a "cloud" if the particle has a Compton wavelength comparable to the black hole's Schwarzschild radius.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Zipeng Wang , Thomas Helfer , Katy Clough , Emanuele Berti

Three - dimensional static and spinning black hole solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system are obtained for a particular scalar field configuration. At large distances, and for small scalar field, the solutions reduce to the BTZ black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-11 Thanasis Karakasis , George Koutsoumbas , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

We study the superradiant scattering of gravitational waves by a nearly extremal black hole (dimensionless spin $a=0.99$) by numerically solving the full Einstein field equations, thus including backreaction effects. This allows us to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 William E. East , Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu , Frans Pretorius

In the simplest scalar-tensor theories, wherein the scalar field is non-minimally coupled to the Ricci scalar, spontaneous scalarization of electrovacuum black holes (BHs) does not occur. This ceases to be true in higher dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Dumitru Astefanesei , Carlos Herdeiro , João Oliveira , Eugen Radu

We compute the quasinormal frequencies for scalar perturbations of hairy black holes in four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory assuming a non-trivial scalar potential for the dilaton field. We investigate the impact on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Angel Rincon , Grigoris Panotopoulos