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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

Deviations from General Relativity can alter the quasi-normal mode (QNM) ringdown of perturbed black holes. It is known that a shift-symmetric (hence massless) scalar can only introduce black hole hair if it couples to the Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-02 Giovanni D'Addario , Antonio Padilla , Paul M. Saffin , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Andrew Spiers

Through numerical simulations of a minimally coupled massive Klein-Gordon scalar field, we show that it is possible to grow hair on a Schwarzschild black hole if one assumes an initial periodically time-varying but spatially homogeneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Katy Clough , Pedro G. Ferreira , Macarena Lagos

In this paper, we find new scalarized black holes by coupling a scalar field with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant in Teleparallel gravity. The Teleparallel formulation of this theory uses torsion instead of curvature to describe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Sebastian Bahamonde , Daniela D. Doneva , Ludovic Ducobu , Christian Pfeifer , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We study a number of well-motivated theories of modified gravity with the common overarching theme that they predict the existence of compact objects such as black holes and wormholes endowed with scalar hair. We compute the shadow radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Georgios Antoniou , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Panagiota Kanti

It has recently been shown that nontrivial couplings between a scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can give rise to black hole spontaneous scalarization. Theories that exhibit this phenomenon are among the leading candidates for testing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Caio F. B. Macedo , Jeremy Sakstein , Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Hector O. Silva , Thomas P. Sotiriou

In this paper, we follow up on the discovery of a new type of solution in the Einstein-Maxwell system coupled minimally to a self-interacting complex scalar field. For sufficiently large gravitational coupling and sufficiently small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

In the present paper we consider the extended scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a massive scalar field. We prove numerically the existence of Gauss-Bonnet black holes for three different forms of the coupling function including the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-29 Daniela D. Doneva , Kalin V. Staykov , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

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

Stellar mass objects orbiting around supermassive black holes are primary targets for future gravitational wave detectors like LISA. However, in theories beyond general relativity, the corresponding waveform templates are still relatively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Adrien Kuntz , Riccardo Penco , Federico Piazza

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

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

We investigate scalarized black holes in new massive gravity dressed by a nonminimally coupled scalar. For this purpose, we find the Gregory-Laflamme (GL) and tachyonic instability bounds of bald BTZ black hole expressed in terms of $ m^2$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-05 Yun Soo Myung

Born-Infeld black holes in the Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity, in the case of massless scalar field, have been recently obtained. The aim of the current paper is to study the effect from the inclusion of a potential for the scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Daniela A. Georgieva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Michail D. Todorov

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

Scalar dark matter is a viable alternative to particle dark matter models such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS). This is particularly the case for scalars with a low mass $m \gtrsim 10^{-21} {\rm eV}$ as required to make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

Pulsar timing arrays are now setting increasingly tight limits on the gravitational wave background from binary supermassive black holes. But as upper limits grow more constraining, what can be implied about galaxy evolution? We investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-20 Joseph Simon , Sarah Burke-Spolaor

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

The black hole scalarization in a special Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) gravity has been widely investigated in recent years. Especially, the spontaneous scalarization of scalar-free black hole in de-Sitter (dS) spacetime possesses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-07 Zhen-Hao Yang , Guoyang Fu , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

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